Locked Up for Freedom: Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
by Heather E. Schwartz
In 1963, more than 30 African-American girls ages 11 to 16 were arrested for taking... read more
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- Grade
- 5-8
- Genre
- Nonfiction
- Cultural Experience
- Women / Girls
- African American
Year Published 2017
Word Count 13,339
- Text Complexity
- Lexile Level: 970L
- ATOS Reading Level: 6.6
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- Quiz 190439, 2 AR Points
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- Curricular Area
- English Language Arts
- History
- Social Studies
- Subject Headings
- 20th century
- African American girls--Georgia--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Civil rights
- Leesburg (Lee County, Ga.)
- African American civil rights workers
- Leesburg (Lee County)
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History | United States - 20th Century
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- African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
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- Civil rights demonstrations
- Civil rights movements
- African American civil rights workers--Georgia--Juvenile literature
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- African Americans
- History
- Social conditions
- Prisons
- African American prisoners--Georgia--Social conditions--20th century--Juvenile literature
- Prisons--Georgia--Leesburg (Lee County)--Juvenile literature
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- Civil rights movements--Georgia--Juvenile literature
- African American prisoners
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