Locked up for freedom : civil rights protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
(2018)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
Y/323.119/SCHWARTZ,H
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2018]
DESCRIPTION
64 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781467785976, 1467785970
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Life as usual -- Movement toward change -- Under arrest! -- Inside Leesburg Stockade -- Doing time -- Power in pictures -- Going home -- Life after Leesburg
"In 1963, more than 30 African American girls, ages 11-14, were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia. Then came a greater ordeal: confinement in a Civil-War-era stockade."--Provided by publisher
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