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We were the fire : Birmingham 1963
- Title
- We were the fire : Birmingham 1963 / Shelia P. Moses.
- Author
- Moses, Shelia P.
- Publication
- New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- 159 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Determined to stand up for their rights, eleven-year-old Rufus, a Black boy, and his friends participate in the 1963 civil rights protests in Birmingham, Alabama.
- Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King. The adults are trying to get more attention to their cause--to show that separate is not equal. Rufus's dad works at the local steel factory, and his mom is a cook at the mill. If they participate in marches, their bosses will fire them. So that's where the kids decide they will come in. Nobody can fire them. So on a bright May morning in 1963, Rufus and his buddies join thousands of other students to peacefully protest in a local park. There they are met with policemen and firemen who turn their powerful hoses on them, and that's where Rufus realizes that they are the fire. And they will not be put out. Shelia Moses gives readers a deeply personal account of one boy's heroism during what came to be known as the Children's Crusade in this important novel that highlights a key turning point in the civil rights movement.
- Alternative Title
- Birmingham 1963
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Civil rights demonstrations > Juvenile fiction
- Segregation > Juvenile fiction
- African American children > Juvenile fiction
- African Americans > Civil rights > Juvenile fiction
- Segregation
- African American children
- African Americans > Civil rights
- African Americans
- Civil rights demonstrations
- Birmingham (Ala.) > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction
- Alabama > Birmingham
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Novels.
- History.
- Juvenile works.
- Audience (note)
- Ages 10 and up.
- 690L
- Call Number
- Sc D 23-118
- ISBN
- 9780593407486
- 0593407482
- LCCN
- 2022016355
- OCLC
- 1291875885
- Author
- Moses, Shelia P., author.
- Title
- We were the fire : Birmingham 1963 / Shelia P. Moses.
- Publisher
- New York : Nancy Paulsen Books, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Audience
- Ages 10 and up. Nancy Paulsen Books.
- Audience
- 690L Lexile
- Local Note
- Schomburg copy with dust jacket.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 23-118