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Gr 6 Up—In the late summer of 1963, more than 30 African American girls were locked up in an abandoned stockade in Leesburg, GA. They ranged in age from 11–16 years old, and all had participated in some form of protest in relation to the growing civil rights movement. Schwartz dives deep into this particular episode, offering up first-person accounts of the circumstances leading to their imprisonment and the horrific conditions they endured at the stockade...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In 1963, thirty African American girls (ages eleven to sixteen) were arrested at a civil rights protest and secretly transported to an abandoned Civil War...Log In or Sign Up to Read More