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Schwartz, Heather E.

Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade

64 pp. | Millbrook | November, 2017 | Library ISBN 978-1-4677-8597-6 $33.32 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5124-2841-4
(3) 4-6 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 stockade in Georgia; unable to contact their parents, they endured horrid conditions and treatment. Employing intimate details from survivor interviews and illustrated with stirring photos, Schwartz's clear, powerful narrative will leave an impression on young readers. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind.
Reviewer: Kristy Pasquariello

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