Daphne Chamberlain, UM visiting assistant professor of history and African American studies, discusses how grassroots activists challenged the system in what African Americans considered the most segregated and most repressive state in the country, initiating the Mississippi movement, and children were at the center of this movement. Youth activism, which began as early as 1946, laid the groundwork for the development of an organizing tradition in Jackson, which influenced children between the ages of 7 and 18 to make a “sacrifice for human dignity” and effect positive change for more than two decades.