Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade
by
Heather E. Schwartz
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In 1963, more than 30 African-American girls ages 11 to 16 were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia. They were taken without their families' knowledge to a Civil War–era stockade in Leesburg, Georgia, where they were confined in unsanitary conditions and exposed...