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  • Published: 15 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780385376068
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $17.99

Child of the Civil Rights Movement




A vivid, child-friendly first-person account about growing up during the civil rights movement. Now in paperback.

In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.

Poignant, moving, and hopeful, this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.

  • Published: 15 August 2013
  • ISBN: 9780385376068
  • Imprint: RHUS Children's Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 48
  • RRP: $17.99

Praise for Child of the Civil Rights Movement

"History comes alive in this vivid account." --School Library Journal, Starred

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