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1963 was a pivotal year in US history.

There was America's early involvement in the Vietnam War,

the assassination of President Kennedy,

and the Historic Civil Rights March on Washington

for jobs and freedom.

In August 1963,

more than 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial and heard Martin Luther King

Jr.'s iconic, I Have a Dream Speech.

As Dr King stood on the steps of that memorial and his

passionate cry for justice echoed across the country, Americans were unaware

that 15 children were being held in an old Civil War stockade in Leesburg, Georgia.

These 15 girls between the ages of 12 and 15 were held in that stockade for

demonstrating for integration in the deep south. For weeks no one knew where

they were or if they were alive.

They just disappeared.

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