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Author Schwartz, Heather E., author.

Title Locked up for freedom : civil rights protesters at the Leesburg Stockade / by Heather E. Schwartz.

Publication Info. Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2017]

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Description 1 online resource.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Life as usual -- Movement toward change -- Under arrest! -- Inside Leesburg Stockade -- Doing time -- Power in pictures -- Going home -- Life after Leesburg.
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.
Audience Grades 4-6.
Ages 10-14.
Note Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher.
Subject African Americans -- Civil rights -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American girls -- Georgia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American prisoners -- Georgia -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American civil rights workers -- Georgia -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights demonstrations -- Georgia -- Americus -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- Georgia -- Juvenile literature.
Prisons -- Georgia -- Leesburg (Lee County) -- Juvenile literature.
Leesburg (Lee County, Ga.) -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00799093
African American girls. (OCoLC)fst00799183
African American prisoners -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00799320
African Americans -- Civil rights. (OCoLC)fst00799575
Civil rights demonstrations. (OCoLC)fst00862704
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Prisons. (OCoLC)fst01077326
Georgia. (OCoLC)fst01204622
Georgia -- Americus. (OCoLC)fst01217176
Georgia -- Leesburg (Lee County) (OCoLC)fst01875136
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Added Title Civil rights protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
Other Form: Print version: Schwartz, Heather E., author. Locked up for freedom Minneapolis : Millbrook Press, [2017] 9781467785976 (DLC) 2016036953
ISBN 9781512428414 (electronic bk.)
1512428418 (electronic bk.)
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