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Locked up for freedom : civil rights protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
- Title
- Locked up for freedom : civil rights protesters at the Leesburg Stockade / by Heather E. Schwartz.
- Author
- Schwartz, Heather E.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2018]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc F 18-182 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Details
- Description
- 64 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm
- Summary
- "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.
- Alternative Title
- Civil rights protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
- Subjects
- African Americans > Civil rights
- African American girls
- Civil rights demonstrations
- Prisons
- African American civil rights workers
- Civil rights movements
- Georgia
- Juvenile works
- Georgia > Leesburg (Lee County)
- History
- African American prisoners > Social conditions
- African Americans > Civil rights > Georgia > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- 1900-1999
- African American civil rights workers > Georgia > Juvenile literature
- African American girls > Georgia > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Civil rights demonstrations > Georgia > Americus > Juvenile literature
- Leesburg (Lee County, Ga.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Schomburg Children's Collection
- Civil rights movements > Georgia > Juvenile literature
- Georgia > Americus
- African American prisoners > Georgia > Social conditions > 20th century > Juvenile literature
- Prisons > Georgia > Leesburg (Lee County) > Juvenile literature
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62) and index.
- Audience (note)
- Ages 10-14.
- Contents
- Life as usual -- Movement toward change -- Under arrest! -- Inside Leesburg Stockade -- Doing time -- Power in pictures -- Going home -- Life after Leesburg.
- Call Number
- Sc F 18-182
- ISBN
- 9781467785976
- 1467785970
- 9781512428414 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2016036953
- OCLC
- 966631989
- Author
- Schwartz, Heather E., author.
- Title
- Locked up for freedom : civil rights protesters at the Leesburg Stockade / by Heather E. Schwartz.
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62) and index.
- Audience
- Grades 4-6.Ages 10-14.
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Schomburg Children's Collection.
- Research Call Number
- Sc F 18-182