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While I ended up enjoying "We've got a job", it did start off very slowly. I found the way the author chose to focus on each teen while providing background of the Civil Rights Movement to be very disjointed. She did cover a lot of information, which is important in understanding not only the Children's March but how and why it came to be but I found it to be very dry. In all honesty, I was pretty familiar with the history of the Civil Rights Movement, so I skimmed through some of this.
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Jan 31, 2013
Sarah
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it was amazing
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I think this book well deserved the Siebert Medal. It was a very well done history that draws the reader into the children's experiences with first person accounts and photographs. My only complaint is that I wish the map of the town had been at the front of the book, it would have made it easier to understand where things were happening. But overall an excellent history book.
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Dec 27, 2012
Kristen
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This is a detailed, thorough look into the 1963 Birmingham Children's March. It shows how truly pervasive and entrenched racism and segregation were in parts of the south before and during the Civil Rights movement. As someone born a long time after this, sometimes it's hard to comprehend how cruel, violent, and terrible people could be. The book showed that in horrifying detail. It would be a great book to pair with the absolutely excellent The Watsons Go to Birmingham (which is also set in 196
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While I thought I knew a fair amount about the Civil Rights Movement, this book expanded my understanding a great deal. I had heard little about the children's marches in Birmingham other than having seen the picture of black kids being hosed down by whites. I also remembered a bit about the church bombing that killed several girls in the basement where their Sunday school class was. What I didn't realize was how many children & teens were involved in marching and were arrested, even some as you
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Thoroughly enjoyed this look at a forgotten piece of history. The kids and teens described in this book had such courage and moral fiber they put me and my cushy life to shame. Recommend for anyone with an interest in the Civil Rights movement.
Feb 03, 2013
Candice M (tinylibrarian)
marked it as to-read
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Feb 17, 2013
Karl
marked it as to-read
Mar 17, 2013
Jody
marked it as to-read
