so then king thinks, "what can i do now?" that's when he decides to have the children's march. that was very, very controversial. to put children in a situation where you knew that there was going to be violence visited upon them. >> we had never done that before. we had never had children before and we didn't know what could happen. >> these are some of the 1,100 children of birmingham who demonstrated in the streets and went to jail and then were either suspended or expelled from school. >> these were 11th and 12th graders who were mostly 16 to 19. they were very mindful of the fact that in another year they could be sent to vietnam to die for freedom abroad for somebody else. >> the students cut classes and took to the streets by the hundreds, following dr. king's tactics of going to jail deliberately to dramatize the negro protest against segregation. unlike albany, the supply of