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 cause - to
show that separate is not equal. Rufus's dad works at the local
steel factory, and his mom is a cook at the mill. If they
participate in marches, their bosses will fire them. So that's
where the kids decide they will come in. Nobody can fire them. So
on a bright May morning in 1963, Rufus and his buddies join
thousands of other students to peacefully protest in a local park.
There they are met with policemen and firemen who turn their
powerful hoses on them, and that's where Rufus realizes that they
are the fire. And they will not be put out. Shelia Moses gives
readers a deeply personal account of one boy's heroism during what
came to be know as the Children's Crusade in this important novel
that highlights a key turning point in the civil rights movement.
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