We Were the Fire: Birmingham 1963

by Shelia P. Moses

Book Overview

The powerful story of an eleven-year-old Black boy determined to stand up for his rights, who's pulled into the action of the 1963 civil rights demonstrations in Birmingham, Alabama.

Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King. The adults are trying to get more attention to their...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0593407504
• ISBN13: 9780593407509
• Release Date: January 2024
• Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5 and higher