Read the excerpt from We’ve Got a Job by Cynthia Levinson.
Audrey and James didn’t go to the mass meeting either. They were in jail.
Audrey was taken to a large dayroom. She didn’t know anyone, and everyone was older. Dinner was unappetizing. "They gave us grits . . .” she said. "They were horrible—all soupy, no salt.” That night, she slept on a bunk bed "on one mattress, with one sheet,” and no covers.
The first-person quotations in this excerpt help explain