Youth Bringing Change

        When people are oppressed, they find a way to better their lives by solidarity and the collective passion of a group.  Often, it is the youth, in their optimism and fervent spirit, that makes this change.  In Birmingham, Alabama, the very epicenter of segregation and southern prejudice, black children succeeded in diminishing the presence of segregation all across the U.S.  The will of the youth, guided by Dr. James Bevel and other experienced adults, managed to exhaust the Birmingham police force in their resilience and determination to gain freedom for their people.  The whole nation was struck that innocent youth would take it upon themselves to make change, regardless of the risks of injury and jail, and therefore acted to help them.  Similar to this was the action that the youth took in Harry Potter, to create an army to help to prepare them for the evil in the real world, when adults were failing to help them do this.  The children in the march of Birmingham also had to act because their elders were not.  Harry leads his peers in fighting for themselves, despite the danger around, to make change.