We've got a job
Subtitle: the 1963 Birmingham Children's March
By: written by Cynthia Levinson
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780545561723
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Juvenile literature; Civil rights; Civil rights movements; African American students; Civil rights demonstrations; African Americans; African American youth; History
Other titles: We have got a job; 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Description: Discusses the events of the 4,000 African American students who marched to jail to secure their freedom in May 1963.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.
Table of contents: title: "I want to go to jail"; title: Audrey Faye Hendricks: "There wasn't a bombing that I wasn't at."; title: 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."; title: James W. Stewart: "No. I am not going to be confined."; title: Arnetta Streeter: "We needed to do something right then."; title: Collision course: "We shall march until victory is won."; title: Project C: "Overwhelmed by a feeling of hopelessness"; title: The foot soldiers: "We got to use what we got."; title: May 2. D-Day: "They're coming out!"; title: May 3. Double D-Day: You wondered how people could be so cruel."; title: Views from other sides: What were they thinking?; title: May 4-6, 1963: "Deliver us from evil."; title: May 7-10, 1963: "Nothing was said ... about the children."; title: May 11-May 23: It was the worst of times. It was the best of times."; title: Freedom and fury: The walls fall down.; title: Afterworld.