Locked up for freedom : civil rights protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
Publication Information
Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2018]
Physical Description
64 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Audience
Ages 10-14.
Summary
"In 1963, more than 30 African American girls, ages 11-14, were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia. Then came a greater ordeal: confinement in a Civil-War-era stockade."--Provided by publisher.
Contents
- Life as usual
- Movement toward change
- Under arrest!
- Inside Leesburg Stockade
- Doing time
- Power in pictures
- Going home
- Life after Leesburg.
Subjects
- African Americans > Civil rights > Georgia > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- African American girls > Georgia > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- African American prisoners > Georgia > Social conditions > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- African American civil rights workers > Georgia > Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights demonstrations > Georgia > Americus > Juvenile literature.
- Civil rights movements > Georgia > Juvenile literature.
- Prisons > Georgia > Leesburg (Lee County) > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans > Civil rights > Georgia > History > 20th century.
- African American girls > Georgia > History > 20th century.
- African American prisoners > Georgia > Social conditions > 20th century.
- African American civil rights workers > Georgia.
- Civil rights demonstrations > Georgia > Americus.
- Civil rights movements > Georgia.
- Prisons > Georgia > Leesburg (Lee County)
- Leesburg (Lee County, Ga.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- Leesburg (Lee County, Ga.) > History > 20th century.