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Genre/Form: | Literature History Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Named Person: | Paula Young Shelton; Paula Young Shelton; Paula Young Shelton |
Material Type: | Primary school |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paula Young Shelton; Raúl Colón |
ISBN: | 9780375954146 0375954147 9780375843143 0375843140 0385376065 9780385376068 |
OCLC Number: | 265089891 |
Awards: | A Junior Library Guild selection |
Target Audience: | Ages 4-8. |
Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm |
Contents: | Going home -- My first protest -- Uncle Martin -- The civil rights family -- Selma to Montgomery -- The Voting Rights Act of 1965 -- More about the people in this book -- Bibliography. |
Responsibility: | by Paula Young Shelton ; illustrated by Raul Colón. |
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Child's View of American History
Our storyteller’s parents decide to return with their three daughters to the Deep South during the time of the reedom Riders, the early...
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Our storyteller’s parents decide to return with their three daughters to the Deep South during the time of the reedom Riders, the early 1960s. The author returns to Georgia where Jim Crow laws exist. The family tests these laws by going to a Holiday Inn restaurant; they are not allowed in. In spite of a little girl’s cries and her mother’s pleas, the restaurant staff refuses them. “Uncle Martin” and the girl’s father work together for the civil rights movement. The story’s author is Andrew Young’s daughter, Paula and she reveals a child’s perspective of this historic time in American history. Her gentle and poetic words accompany very well the soft colored pencil drawings. The soft colors show very warm scenes of a child being held or carried and they balance the serious events happening. An end note provides more detail about the people mentioned in the book and sources that were used. While the book’s vocabulary makes this a wonderful early elementary choice, the information at the end could also be read by middle school readers. Paula’s unique perspective and concise writing give an understanding glimpse into the significant events of the Civil Rights Movement.
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