David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants

by police dogs?^9
After D Day, King and Walker heard
it from all sides. The judge processing
the arrested marchers said that the
people who “misled those kids” into
marching “ought to be put under the
jail.” On the floor of Congress, one of
Alabama’s congressmen called the use
of children “shameful.” The mayor of
Birmingham denounced the
“irresponsible and unthinking agitators”
who were using children as “tools.”
Malcolm X—the black activist who was
in every way more radical than King—
said “real men don’t put their children
on the firing line.” The New York Times
editorialized that King was engaged in