It had been just little over fifty years since the march in Birmingham, Alabama. Its largest group of participants were children, known as the Children’s Crusade. The SNCC was created just a few years prior to the Children’s Crusade after they became tired of waiting for King to make his next move. Children from all over the North and South would travel miles to participant in different campaigns, the most important being the march in Birmingham, the “Freedom Riders”, and Sit-Ins. If it were not for student volunteers taking part in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950-60s, there may have been a potential of failure for the movement altogether. The idea of the Children’s Crusade came from Rev. James Bevel who thought it would be a good
