Civil rights can be a difficult topic, even for adults, so finding simple language to explain the complexity of injustice and oppression to children is challenging. Shelton, daughter of Andrew Young, accepts the challenge and rises to meet it, approaching the topic from the point of view of the child she was in the '60s: a four-year-old girl living in the midst of the leaders who helped change the nation. While the linked free-verse poems appropriately omit potentially confusing information, they introduce readers to her parents' friends-activists such as Martin Luther King Jr., Dorothy Cotton and Ralph Abernathy. The author's language can pack a punch, as when she describes her parents' moving the family from New York "back to Georgia, / back to Jim Crow, / where whites could / but blacks could not." Colon's illustrations are exceptional in their use of color and texture to convey emotions and situations. Thumbnail biographies of the leaders introduced demonstrate that their activism did not end after the Voting Rights Act, which concludes this account. Essential. (bibliography) (Picture book/memoir. 4-9)
What was it like growing up in the Deep South when Jim Crow laws were everywhere?
How did it feel to sit down to dinner with grown-ups who planned protests between bites of Mama's creamy macaroni and cheese?And imagine walking right beside Uncle Martin and Aunt Coretta in that historic
march from Selma to Montgomery-until your legs were so tired that you had to ride on your father's back.
Paula Young Shelton, a daughter of civil rights leader Andrew Young, takes readers on a vivid trip back to Paula's childhood in an extraordinary family-the family of the American civil rights movement.
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How did it feel to sit down to dinner with grown-ups who planned protests between bites of Mama's creamy macaroni and cheese?And imagine walking right beside Uncle Martin and Aunt Coretta in that historic
march from Selma to Montgomery-until your legs were so tired that you had to ride on your father's back.
Paula Young Shelton, a daughter of civil rights leader Andrew Young, takes readers on a vivid trip back to Paula's childhood in an extraordinary family-the family of the American civil rights movement.
Child of the Civil Rights Movement
What was it like growing up in the Deep South when Jim Crow laws were everywhere?
How did it feel to sit down to dinner with grown-ups who planned protests between bites of Mama's creamy macaroni and cheese?And imagine walking right beside Uncle Martin and Aunt Coretta in that historic
march from Selma to Montgomery-until your legs were so tired that you had to ride on your father's back.
Paula Young Shelton, a daughter of civil rights leader Andrew Young, takes readers on a vivid trip back to Paula's childhood in an extraordinary family-the family of the American civil rights movement.
How did it feel to sit down to dinner with grown-ups who planned protests between bites of Mama's creamy macaroni and cheese?And imagine walking right beside Uncle Martin and Aunt Coretta in that historic
march from Selma to Montgomery-until your legs were so tired that you had to ride on your father's back.
Paula Young Shelton, a daughter of civil rights leader Andrew Young, takes readers on a vivid trip back to Paula's childhood in an extraordinary family-the family of the American civil rights movement.
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| BN ID: | 2940173188274 |
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| Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
| Publication date: | 07/27/2021 |
| Edition description: | Unabridged |
| Age Range: | Up to 4 Years |
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