Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protestors at the Leesburg Stockade
Author: Schwartz, Heather E.
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.6
Points
2.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
13339
Points per Word
0.00015
Page Count
64
Points per Page
0.03125
Description
In 1963, more than 30 African American girls, ages 11 to 14, were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia. Then came a greater ordeal: confinement in a Civil-War-era stockade.