Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
Heather E. Schwartz
This informational account examines the 1963 civil rights protests in Americus, Georgia, and the imprisonment of more than thirty African American girls, ages eleven to sixteen. After their arrests, the girls were confined in the Leesburg Stockade, where they faced inhumane treatment. The book includes an author’s note, chronology, source notes, glossary, bibliography, further information, and an index alongside its account of the civil rights movement.
This book appears on 3 reading lists across 2 editions from 3 organizations.
