7.1 Media Changes & The Civil Rights Movement The

7.1 Media Changes & the Civil Rights MovementThe children and media played a significant role in ending segregation and developing equality among black and white races. The willingness of children to go to the streets and risk being jailed and being poured watered, demonstrated their disgust with racial segregation. The official marching of the Birmingham children o the street on May, 2, 1963, heralded the long awaited changes in schools. Their resolute to put up a spirited fight in solidarity with the mistreatment that black people face in the United States was an unmatched and focused. The presence of the police and the German dogs and water did not deter the desire to see a just America that treats people equally regardless of the color of their skins. Media bolstered the efforts of the Birmingham Children by giving extensive media coverage to their protests that eventually culminated to the Civil Rights Movement winning against segregation, when President Kennedy on June 11, 1963, announced the abolition of segregation in the white’s only schools and shops, buses, and stores that served white only.