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We've Got a Job

by Cynthia Levinson

Ages: 12+

Published: 2012

Publisher: Peachtree

ISBN: 978-1-56145-627-7

Keywords: Civil Rights, African Americans

To draw attention to the Civil Rights movement, African American children in Birmingham, Alabama marched and went to jail. Focuses on four of the participants. Archival photographs.