What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
By Sherri L. Smith and Who HQ and Illustrated by Tim Foley
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Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.
Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change.
Author Sherri L. Smith brings to life momentous events through the words and stories of people who were on the frontlines of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
This book also features the fun black-and-white illustrations and engaging 16-page photo insert that readers have come love about the What Was? series!
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About the contributor(s)
About the contributor(s)
Sherri L. Smith is not a pilot, but she makes an excellent passenger (unless it’s a very small plane). She is the author of numerous acclaimed fiction and nonfiction books for young people, including Flygirl, the winner of the California Book Awards’ Gold Medal; The Blossom and the Firefly, the winner of the Golden Kite Award from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators; Orleans; and Who Were the Tuskegee Airmen? She teaches creative writing at Hamline University. Born in Chicago, Sherri now lives in Los Angeles.
Book details
Book details
ISBN: 9781524792305
Publisher: Penguin Workshop
Date published:
Page count: 112
Categories, genres & themes: Juvenile Nonfiction / African American & Black, Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Cultural & Regional, and Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Topics / Prejudice & Racism
Ages: 8 to 12
