Record details

• ISBN: 9781561456277 (hc)
• ISBN: 1561456276 (hc)
• ISBN: 9781561458448 (pbk) :
• ISBN: 1561458449 (pbk)
• Physical Description: print
  176 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 x 24 cm
• Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : Peachtree Publishers, [2012]
• Copyright: ©2012

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

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

Formatted Contents Note:

"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.

Target Audience Note:

Young Adult

1020L Lexile

Study Program Information Note:

Accelerated Reader 7.4

Reading Counts! 8.6

Accelerated Reader MG 7.4 8 8 148812

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Subject:

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

Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- Birmingham -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature

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

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

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature

Civil rights movements -- Juvenile literature

Birmingham (Ala.) -- History -- Juvenile literature

African Americans -- Civil rights -- Birmingham (Ala.) -- History

Civil rights demonstrations -- Birmingham (Ala.) -- History

African American students -- Birmingham (Ala.) -- History

African American youth -- Birmingham (Ala.) -- History

Birmingham (Ala.) -- History

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

African American students

African American youth

African Americans -- Civil rights

Civil rights movements

Alabama -- Birmingham

Genre:

History.

Juvenile works.