We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Author

Cynthia Levinson

Call Number

• J 323.1196 LEVI (CEN, OSH)

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Publication Information

Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree Publishers, 2011.

Physical Description

176 p. : ill., map ; 25 x 24 cm.

Summary

Discusses the events of the 4,000 African American students who marched to jail to secure their freedom in May 1963.

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.