Bibliograph

We've got a job, the 1963 Birmingham Children's March, Cynthia Levinson

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We've got a job, the 1963 Birmingham Children's March, Cynthia Levinson

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-171) and index

Illustrations

illustrationsmapsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

We've got a job

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

746154092

Responsibility statement

Cynthia Levinson

Sub title

the 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Summary

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

Table Of 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

Target audience

adolescent

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We have got a job1963 Birmingham Children's March

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