We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
By Cynthia Levinson Publisher: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. Pages: 180 Age Range: 13 – 17 Years ABOUT We’ve Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi’s and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s precept to “fill the jails,” they succeeded—where adults had failed—in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in America. Focusing on four of the original participants who have participated...
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By Cynthia Levinson Publisher: Peachtree Publishers, Ltd. Pages: 224 Lexile: 930L Age Range: 10 – 13 Years ABOUT The author of We’ve Got a Job explores the world of social circus—a movement that brings kids from different worlds together to perform remarkable acts on a professional level. Levinson follows the participants of two specific circuses that also work together periodically: Circus Harmony, in St. Louis, whose participants are inner-city and suburban kids, and Circus Galilee in Israel, whose participants and Jews and Arabs. As the kids’ relationships evolve over...
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