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We've Got A Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Age 12-15
Grade 7-9

Cynthia Levinson

We've Got A Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March

Library Binding (Turtleback Feb. 1, 2015) , Bound for Schools & Libraries ed. edition
FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. We've Got A Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary, middle and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s precept to ""fill the jails,"" the students succeeded in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in America. The astonishing events surrounding the Children's March are retold here from the perspectives of four of the original participants.
ISBN
0606369163 / 9780606369169
Pages
180
Weight
24.0 oz.
Dimensions
9.0 x 0.5 in.

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