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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 and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Intended audience
1020L, Lexile
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
We've got a job
Nature of contents
bibliography
Oclc number
746154092
Responsibility statement
Cynthia Levinson
resource.studyProgramName
Accelerated Reader AR, MG, 7.4, 8.0, 148812
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 II "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." -- Collisious 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 -10, 1963 "Nothing was said ... about the children." -- May 11 - May 23 It was the worse of times. It was the best of times. -- Freedom and fury the walls fall down. -- Afterworld
Target audience
juvenile

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