purpose it served.”
10 King thought long and hard before
agreeing to use the children. He had to
be talked into it by James Bevel. Their
eventual conclusion was that if someone
was old enough to belong to a church—
to have made a decision of that
importance to their life and soul—then
they were old enough to fight for a cause
of great importance to their life and soul.
In the Baptist tradition, you could join a
church once you were of school age.
That meant that King approved of using
children as young as six or seven against
Bull Connor.
11 Walker makes a similar claim
about the famous photographs of
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(Darren Dugan)
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