The teachers march! : how Selma's teachers changed history / Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace ; illustrated by Charly Palmer
2020
CMC LB2844.1.P6 W35 2020 (Mapit)
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The teachers march! : how Selma's teachers changed history / Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace ; illustrated by Charly Palmer
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9781629794525 (hardcover)
162979452X (hardcover)
162979452X (hardcover)
Published
New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyd Mills & Kane, [2020]
Copyright
©2020
Language
English
Description
46 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Call Number
CMC LB2844.1.P6 W35 2020
Dewey Decimal Classification
323.1196
Summary
"Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers and their family members in order to tell this story, which is especially important today" -- Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references
Awards
A Junior Library Guild selection
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