Jay Craven: Listen to the young

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Jay Craven, of Peacham, a filmmaker and director of Kingdom County Productions. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. This piece first aired on VPR.
The sudden surge of high school-driven youth activism, focused on issues of gun violence, reminds me of the 1963 Birmingham Alabama Children’s Crusade, which changed the course of history and moved President John F. Kennedy to take a dramatic stand against racial segregation which had refused to yield