Mrs. Armantrout’s fourth-graders at Patsy Sommer Elementary in Austin, Texas; created this book trailer for We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March by Cynthia Y. Levinson (Peachtree, 2012)(excerpt).
Read a Cynsations New Voice interview with Cynthia. Peek: “I interviewed not only black people who had marched in 1963 but also
white people, including a policeman, about their perspectives. This trip
convinced me that onsite research is invaluable.”
See also Who Are You, Really? by Cynthia Y. Levinson from Hunger Mountain: A VCFA Journal of the Arts. Peek: “Identity, I was learning, is tricky. My facile categorizations of my
sources into racists on one side and black civil rights activists on the
other barely coincided with their own self-identity. Their internal
nuances mattered.”
Wow. Powerfully moving trailer. This book has just been put on my MUST READ list. Thank you Cynthia!
It's one of the top nonfiction titles of the year and a fantastic debut.