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Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1963, more than 30 African American girls, ages 11-14, were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia. Then came a greater ordeal: confinement in a Civil-War-era stockade."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Without Mercy reads like a John Grisham thriller."---David R. Dow, author of The Autobiography of an Execution On December 9, 1938, the state of Georgia executed six black men in eighty-one minutes in Tattnall Prison's electric chair. The executions were a record for the state that still stands today. The new prison, built with funds from FDR's New Deal, as well as the fact that the men were tried and executed rather than lynched were thought to...