| Variant title |
We have got a job |
| Portion of title |
1963 Birmingham Children's March |
| 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. |
| Abstract |
Discusses the events of the 4,000 African American students who marched to jail to secure their freedom in May 1963. |
| Local note | Little-305131062242T |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 170-171) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011031738 |
| ISBN | 9781561456277 (hc) |
| ISBN | 1561456276 (hc) |
