We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March By: Cynthia Levinson

We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March By: Cynthia Levinson

I personally was really excited to read this book again, when I saw that it was on one of the lists I was so happy! I myself love History but I tend to get bored when reading about it unless it is in story form or I know it is all true. The author takes us through the background of different children who participated in the civil rights movement. The book tells us exactly the thing that people and especially these young kids and teens were going through. For example they ended up creating work shows to teach each other on how to stay safe when being sprayed by a giant water hose and how not to react when they were being called foul names and spat at my random strangers because they had a different skin tone than them. When reading it the stories are very humbling in knowing you have not had to go through horrific things like that. You also get to learn what they learned and saw how young people took a stand because they as young people had less to loose versus their parents who were working and providing for them and took care of the rest of they families.

Pros: Learn more about history through story and can be more interesting to people, and young adults can relate to this as they were being told about people their age in a different setting

Cons: The only down side is that it is pretty text heavy and a reader cannot skip around but thats how most books are anyways.

Some links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDNON7TDbUg

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/reviews/weve-got-a-job-cynthia-levinson/1110790597?ean=9781561458448

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12715346-we-ve-got-a-job