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Holiday House (2014), 144 pages
Description
An account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.
Awards
Sydney Taylor Book Award (Mass Import -- Pending Differentiation)
Golden Kite Award (Honor — 2015)
Carter G. Woodson Book Award (Honor Book — 2015)
Grand Canyon Reader Award (Recommended — 2017)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction (Nominee — 2015)
CCBC Choices (2015)
Books From All 50 States (and Washington, D.C.!) (Mississippi)
Notable Children's Book (2015)
Los Angeles Public Library Best of the Year (Children's Books — 2014)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Kids (Informational Books for Older Readers — 2014)
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LibraryThing member Sullywriter
An accessible, passionate account of this pivotal and tragic period in the Civil Rights Movement. What this informative book needs is a concluding chapter or afterward discussing how the recent dismantling of the 1964 Voting Rights Act by the U.S. Supreme Court has rendered the dangerous work of
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those fearless Civil Rights works irrelevant and the murders of Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman meaningless. Show Less
ISBN
0823429202 / 9780823429202