BIRMINGHAM (WVTM) — Sixty-one years after the Children’s Crusade, more than 700 students from across Birmingham came to the historic Civil Rights District to participate in a reenactment of the march.

The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, left, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. lead a column of demonstrators as they attempt to march on Birmingham, Ala., city hall April 12, 1963. The Rev. Jonathan McPherson, ...