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Author Levinson, Cynthia.

Title We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March / written by Cynthia Levinson.

Imprint Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree Publishers, 2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PCMS Non-Fiction  323.11 LEVINSON    ---  DUE 05-10-24
Description 176 p. : ill., map ; 25 x 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171) and index.
Contents "I want to go to jail" -- Audrey Faye Hendricks: "There wasn't a bombing that I wasn't at." -- Washington Booker III: "I was too rambunctious to be a little black kid in the South. That put me in a position to be killed." -- James W. Stewart: "No. I am not going to be confined." -- Arnetta Streeter: "We needed to do something right then." -- Collision course: "We shall march until victory is won." -- Project C: "Overwhelmed by a feeling of hopelessness" -- The foot soldiers: "We got to use what we got." -- May 2. D-Day: "They're coming out!" -- May 3. Double D-Day: You wondered how people could be so cruel." -- Views from other sides: What were they thinking? -- May 4-6, 1963: "Deliver us from evil." -- May 7-10, 1963: "Nothing was said...about the children." -- May 11-May 23: It was the worst of times. It was the best of times." -- Freedom and fury: The walls fall down. -- Afterworld.
Summary Discusses the events of the 4,000 African American students who marched to jail to secure their freedom in May 1963.
Study Program Accelerated Reader RL 7.4 8.0 PCMS PHS
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American students -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American youth -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights.
Civil rights movements.
Birmingham (Ala.) -- History.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Birmingham (Ala.) -- History.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Birmingham (Ala.) -- History.
African American students -- Birmingham (Ala.) -- History.
African American youth -- Birmingham (Ala.) -- History.
Birmingham (Ala.) -- History.
Added Title We have got a job
1963 Birmingham Children's March
ISBN 9781561456277 (hc)
1561456276 (hc)
Standard No. NZ1 14205730

 
    
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