02987cam a2200385 4500 292451945 TxAuBib 20170518120000.0 110808s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2011031738 9781561456277 1561456276 9781561458448 1561458449 (OCoLC)746154092 TxAuBib Levinson, Cynthia,. We've got a job : the 1963 Birmingham Children's March / Cynthia Levinson. We have got a job. 1963 Birmingham Children's March. Atlanta, Georgia : Peachtree Publishers, [2012] ©2012. 176 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index. "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. 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. Ages 10-15. Young Adult. 1020 Lexile. Accelerated Reader 7.4. Reading Counts! 8.6. 20170522. African Americans Juvenile non-fiction. Civil rights movements Juvenile non-fiction.