 King , who had been silent and then out of town while Bevel was organizing the children , was impressed by the success of using them in the protests . That evening he declared at a mass meeting , " I have been inspired and moved by today . I have never seen anything like it . " Although Wyatt Tee Walker was initially against the use of children in the demonstrations , he responded to criticism by saying , " Negro children will get a better education in five days in jail than in five months in a segregated school . " The D Day campaign received front page coverage by The Washington Post and The New York Times . 
