Title:
We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March
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Publication Date:
2011
Publication Information:
Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree Publishers, 2011.
Physical Description:
176 p. : ill., map, ports. ; 25 x 24 cm.
ISBN:
9781561456277
Abstract:
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. -- Freedm and fury: The walls fall down. -- Afterworld.
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Language:
English
