We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March / Cynthia Levinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Levinson, Cynthia, author.

Contributor:

Peachtree Publishers, publisher.

R.R. Donnelley and Sons Company, printer.

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Children's Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hendricks, Audrey Faye.

African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

African Americans.

Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

Civil rights demonstrations.

Civil rights demonstrations--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century--Personal narratives.

Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

Civil rights movements.

African American students--Political activity--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

African American students.

African American youth--Political activity--Alabama--Birmingham--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

African American youth.

Birmingham (Ala.)--History--20th century--Juvenile literature.

Birmingham (Ala.).

African Americans--Civil rights.

Birmingham (Ala.)--History.

African Americans--Civil rights--Alabama--History--Birmingham--20th century.

Civil rights movements--Alabama--History--Birmingham--20th century.

African American students--Alabama--History--Birmingham--20th century.

African American youth--Alabama--History--Birmingham--20th century.

African American youth--Political activity.

Alabama--Birmingham.

United States.

Genre:

Literature.

Fiction.

History.

Juvenile works.

Personal narratives.

Creative.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

176 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Edition:

Fifth printing, 2013.

Manufacture:

South China : R.R. Donnelley and Sons

Other Title:

We have got a job

1963 Birmingham Children's March

Place of Publication:

Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Publishers, 2012.

Summary:

By May 1963, African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama, had had enough of segregation and police brutality. But with their lives and jobs at stake, most adults were hesitant to protest the city's racist culture. Instead, children and teenagers -- like Audrey, Wash, James, and Arnetta -- marched to jail to secure their freedom. At a time when the civil rights movement was struggling, Birmingham's black youth answered Dr. Martin Luther King's call to "fill the jails" of their city. In doing so, they drew national attention to the cause, helped bring about the repeal of segregation laws, and inspired thousands of other young people to demand their rights. Combining extensive research and in-depth interviews with protestors, Cynthia Levinson recreates the events of the Birmingham Children's March from a new and very personal perspective.

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.

Notes:

"Text ©2012 by Cynthia y. Levinson"--verso of title page.

"Printed in April 2013 by R.R. Donnelley and Sons in South China" verso of title page.

"Text and titles set in century Schoolbook and SF New Republic SC"--verso of title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.

A Junior Library Guild Selection.

Parents Choice Awards Gold Medal, 2012.

Orbis Pictus Award Honor Book, 2013.

Capitol Choices: Noteworthy Books For Children and Teens Recommended, 2013.

Golden Kite Honor Book, 2013.

Jane Addams Children's Book Award, 2013.

其他题名:The 1963 Birmingham Children's March.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy retains dust jacket.

ISBN:

9781561456277

1561456276

9781561458448

1561458449

OCLC:

746154092

Publisher Number:

9781561456277