getting ready to drink out of a water fountain, because they had colored and white water fountains. >> if you go downtown to the theater, on a saturday afternoon, all of us little black children had to go upstairs to the balcony. >> if you stopped at a gas station, they had a colored bathroom and a white bathroom. otherwise, you couldn't go. >> you saw police dogs. fire hoses attacking young black boys and girls who were peacefully demonstrating to end segregation. >> i knew that they were my age. that is what was terrifying. >> birmingham was like a spark that ignited a prairie fire of national protests. >> here in gaston, it was probably one of the worst places