The Civil Rights Movement and the Power of Teen Girl Activists
By Carol Hinz, Editorial Director of Millbrook Press and Carolrhoda Books I was fascinated from the moment author Heather E. Schwartz first mentioned a group of black teen girls protesting for their civil rights in Georgia in 1963. These teen girl activists were locked up in a Civil War-era stockade in Leesburg, Georgia. What stood […]Read more "The Civil Rights Movement and the Power of Teen Girl Activists"