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

Discusses the events of the 4,000 African American students who marched to jail to secure their freedom in May 1963.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Levinson, Cynthia
Language:	English
Published:	Atlanta : Peachtree Publishers, [2012]
Series:	MSU Children's & YA Literature Collection.
Subjects:	African Americans > Civil rights > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century. Civil rights movements > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century. African American students > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century. African American youth > Alabama > Birmingham > History > 20th century. African Americans > Civil rights. Civil rights movements. Birmingham (Ala.) > History > 20th century. Birmingham (Ala.) > History.
Physical Description:	176 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Variant Title:	We have got a job. 1963 Birmingham Children's March.
Format:	Book

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.