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Six fictional characters, in cycles of linked poems, relate their memories of the historic day in 1963 when more than 250,000 people from across the United States joined together to march on Washington, D.C., calling for civil and economic rights for African Americans.
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For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.
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Presents the story of how more than thirty African American girls, ages eleven to sixteen, were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia, in 1963. When the local jail became full they were secretly moved to an abandoned Civil-War-era stockade, and were unable to contact their families and were faced with unsanitary conditions and brutal treatment.