Summary: Children's Crusade

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Tyma Brunson
English 10
September 21, 2015
The main purpose of history above all else's to provide current society with a better understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future. Since the begging of time man and women have looked to each other to find emotion, they looked to each other for comfort, friendship, and sometimes hate or revenge. Things like this have been shown throughout history in the eyes of young and old citizens. Among the years we depended on our families or our tribes in order to survive. That is where we learned how to survive all the terrible things that happen.
In the photo “Children’s Crusade” , four colored children are being drenched in water. They look distraught

and hurt. This all began by a boy preaching in France or Germany. He said the he had been visited be Jesus, and was told to lead a crusade to get Muslims to peacefully convert to Christianity. The Children’s Crusade was a religious movement in Europe, it was very popular in the summer of 1212. Thousands of young people took crusading vows which is where you make a promise and you dedicate yourself to lead or take part in an organized campaign involving and concerning social, political, or a religious issue. They did these crusading vows to recover Jerusalem from the Muslims.
The photograph “Into The Jaws of Death” shows American soldiers landing in Normandy, France. On the morning of 1944, June 6, the very beginning of the invasion
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to set free the continental Europeans from the tight grip of the German Nazi’s.

Many of the troops that had come ashore were from the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. Over 10,000- -6,603 U.S, 2,700 British, and about 946 Canadian soldiers were killed, wounded, missing, or taken prisoner. The title of this picture really does describe what actually happened in that tragic day. The men in this picture actually set off into the jaws of death, they are actually going into a war were they know they will die but they are still willing to fight. They are going into a war with bullets whizzing by their heads explosions happening right by their feet. Most people know “Into The Jaws of Death” as D-day, the horror of the day home. D-day was one of the biggest invasions the military assaults had planned. On D-day about 156,000 American, British, and Canadian forces landed on five beaches along a fifty-mile

stretch.
In “Children's Crusade” and “Into The Jaws of Death”, they both show violence to humans. The only difference between the two pictures is that in “Children's Crusade” they are being violent to only the colored children. In “Into The Jaws of Death” it shows violence to the Nazis and vice versa.
“Children’s Crusade” has an array of darkness that is shared between the children as well as the men in “Into The Jaws of Death”. They both share a deep violence and darkness. Both show how history has and hasn't changed. The two photos both clearly show one main idea; that we can better face the future, with more understanding of the past and future. “Into The Jaws of Death” also has an array of darkness like no other, there is gunfire and death all around. There was no way out except dying or victory.
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“Children’s Crusade” was a time of misery for children.

They looked to family and friends for support of one another. Charles Avery left his high school to lead about 800 students in a 10-mile walk from Alabama to Birmingham City. They were stopped by the sheriff’s department, arrested, and sent to jail. He went on this 10-mile walk because he believed that the Children’s Crusade was wrong and cruel. Birmingham City was known as one of the most racist cities in the south. Some people described it as a symbol of hard-core resistance to integration. The activists nicknamed it Bombingham because of the constant violent attacks against the people who were fighting the system of segregation. It was the Rev. James Bevel who came up with the idea of a protest group made up of only children. He was a leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and he was an advisor to the King. On May 1963 they had launched the Children’s Crusade and then started a march in Birmingham. By the time Avery made it to the city it was May 7, a lot more then 3,000 young colored people were marching in the city of Birmingham.
Everyone knows how we have a black history month but hardly any of use knew that the “Children’s Crusade” was involved in it as well. The “Children’s Crusade” is involved with black history month because they only young people that were getting hurt were the colored ones. Most suffered vicious dog bites and being nearly drowned in water. These kids were terrified to even

leave there homes at times because they were scared that a dog might chase them and rip them apart or they would be drenched, again. Hundreds of protesters were arrested and taken to jail then hundreds more would

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join the next day. In times like these families and friends stuck together, if one was being drenched by water the other would go to protect him/her and so on.
June 6, 1944, a horrible war accord, 1941 to 1944 America and their allies set a goal of defeating Germany. Their action plans rested on a an assumption, in the long run there would have of had to be an invasion of Northwest Europe with the “guns” pointed at the heart of the empire. With that happening it would reduce the German pressure on the Soviet Union. This would happen by creating a true second front in Europe. Therefore Germany would be trapped between the Soviets in the east and us Americans and British in the west.