In April 1963 the Birmmingham protests seemed likely to fail. What did James Bevel propose to save the protest?How successful was Bevel's plan?

Bevel's plan was conducted in coordination with Dr. King.
 At a time when some level of stagnation was being experienced in the 1963 Birmingham
protests, Bevel proposed the idea of using school aged children and university students
to help drive home the demand for Civil Rights for people of color, specifically
African- Americans.  Bevel worked with the kids and leading them, they marched onto the
steps of the Birmingham City Hall where they were met with police in riot gear and hoses
in order to break the spirits of the protestors.  At the time, President Kennedy and the
nation took notice of school aged children being abused by police officers and being
hosed down with fire hoses as well as having guard dogs attack them.  This was something
of a moral repugnance to the President, or something of really bad public relations.
 Kennedy asked Dr. King to stop the use of the children.  As part of their original
agreement to not relent until their goals of Civil Rights social and legal equality had
been reached, Bevel refused to stop the use of children and planned to expand their use.
 Bevel had realized that the use of children as part of the movement helped to enhance
its moral aims and place the burden of moral culpability on those in the position of
power.  In a shrewd move, Bevel reasoned that a nation which preached equality could not
justify mistreating a grade school child marching for Civil Rights.  When President
Kennedy understood that the leadership of the movement, of which Bevel had a large part,
would not stop using children in its aims, the President and his advisors began the
process of carving out legislation to ensure Civil Rights, asking the leadership what
they wanted to see in such legislation.  In terms of Bevel's success, I would say that
he was fairly successful in helping to bring about the overt racial social and
institutional practices in the South.  As he and the other Civil Rights leaders
understood, the battle against these covert practices in the Northern part of the United
States was much more difficult as the enemy was much more elusive and more evasive than
its Southern counterpart.