Below are my scheduled presentations on We’ve Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children’s March. Programs open to the public are noted. If you would like me to visit your school or library while I’m in your area, please contact me at clevinson@austin.rr.com. This is a good way to share expenses!

• Brookline Booksmith in Brookline, Massachusetts on June 4, 2012 at 7:00 pm. This one’s a double-play. Meira and I will launch our books together. Come one, come all!
• Lone Star College, Cypress, Texas on June 19, 2012. I’ll talk with kids at CyFair’s Summer Reading Program.

Several Book Launches have already occurred.

• At the Birmingham Public Library, I was honored to present with two of the marchers featured in We’ve Got a Job, Washington Booker III and James W. Stewart. Video clips of their presentations are fascinating.
• At the Carver Museum in Austin, where Marcher Washington Booker joined me to discuss the book before a standing-room only crowd. We held the world premiere of the We’ve Got a Job Trailer!
• At Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC  where the Center for Inspired Teaching and the National Council for the Social Studies gave books to teachers!
• My college friend Ann Rosewater and her husband, Robert Kronley, hosted a book party at the home of my publisher, Margaret Quinlin, in Atlanta.
• Friends in Washington, DC held a Triple Book Party for the Levinsons! Husband Sandy (Framed: America’s 51 Constitutions and the Crisis of Governance, Oxford University Press, April 2012) plus our daughter Meira (No Citizen Left Behind, Harvard University Press, April 2012), and I (We’ve Got a Job) all launched our books.

Recently, I’ve been honored to deliver presentations at several national teachers conventions based on WE’VE GOT A JOB.

• “Takin’ it to the Streets—and Into Your Classroom.” National Council of Teachers of English, Chicago, Nov. 19, 2011.
• “We Might Be Heroes.”  National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, DC, Dec. 2, 2011
• “So, how Many of Your Friends Belonged to the KKK?”, National Council for the Social Studies, Washington, DC, Dec. 2, 2011.
• “Takin’ it to the Streets–and Into Your Classroom. Literacy Summit, San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 4, 2012.
• International Reading Association, Chicago, Illinois on April 30, 2012. I will make a presentation on ”The REAL Hero’s Journey: Using Nonfiction Stories About Children in the Civil Rights Movement to Teach Social Justice and Narrative Arc.”