Status
Available
Publication
Scholastic Nonfiction (2004), Edition: First Edition, 160 pages
Library's review
"This clear-eyed account of the civil-rights movement’s most vicious years should be required reading for anyone who thinks that it all began and ended with Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr. Using her own privileged Birmingham childhood as a springboard, Pulitzer-winner McWhorter sketches in
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the realities of post-Reconstruction racism in North and South alike, along with the conflicting responses to it embodied by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Then she chronicles horrors and heroism from the violent reactions to Brown v. Board of Education to the chaotic close of the “Poor People’s Campaign.” But along with detailing the proud accomplishments of the movement’s iconic figures, she also points up King’s messiah complex and Jesse Jackson’s early reputation as an opportunist. She profiles lesser known activists and looks behind the movement’s seeming solidarity to its internal dissensions and politics. Illustrated with many of the era’s most telling news photos, and enhanced by follow-ups, side portraits, and a manageable, multimedia resource list, this passionate study will take readers a long way toward understanding the enduring, personal meaning that the struggle for racial equality has for everyone. (Nonfiction. 10-15)" From Kirkus, www.kirkusreviews.com Show Less
Subjects
Awards
Cardinal Cup (Noteworthy — 2005)
Orbis Pictus Award (Recommended Title — 2005)
Best Fiction for Young Adults (Selection — 2005)
CCBC Choices (2005)
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2004
ISBN
0439576784 / 9780439576789
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