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We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March
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.
Subjects
- 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.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.