Title: We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March
Author: Cynthia Levinson Pages: 176 pages Publisher/Date:
Peachtree Publishers, c2012 Awards: Finalist for The YALSA Award
for Excellence in Nonfiction (2013) Though nonviolent, all of
these confrontations were illegal. King reasoned that if enough
protesters were arrested, they would fill the jails and
overwhelm Connor’s ability to enforce segregation laws. […] Only
a few hundred adults heard Bevel’s frenzied sermon that night,
and just seventeen volunteered to go to jail. But kids got the
message, especially when the preacher who followed Bevel
proclaimed, “Some of these students say they have got to go to
school, but they will get more education in five days in the
City Jail than they will get in five months in a segregated
school.” (48, 59) Segregation in the 1960s was a violent time of
upheaval. Most of us have heard the most familiar stories of
Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. But very few people may
realize the effect that children and