Oh, freedom! : kids talk about the Civil Rights Movement with the people who made it happen / by Casey King and Linda Barrett Osborne ; foreword by Rosa Parks ; portraits by Joe Brooks.
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TextDescription: 137 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmISBN: 0679858563; 9780679858560; 0679958568; 9780679958567; 067989005X; 9780679890058Subject(s): African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature | Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature | Civil rights workers -- United States -- Interviews -- Juvenile literature | African Americans -- Segregation -- Juvenile literature | Civil disobedience -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literatureGenre/Form: Interviews. DDC classification: 973/.0496073 LOC classification: E185.61 | .K523 1997Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
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Summary: Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African Americans.
"Been in the Storm So Long": Life Under Segregation -- Interviews: Carian Gray with Charles Epps -- Brendan Byrne with Jacqueline Wilson -- Dana Little with Loretta Butler -- John Ford IV with John Ford III -- Justin Pratt with Marsha Pratt -- Alana Brevard with Marsha Brevard -- Nicole Bossard with Mary Bossard -- Jessica Nunez and Michael Spurgeon with Malaya Rucker -- Latoya Smith with Shirley Collins -- "Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom": The Movement to End Legalized Segregation -- Interviews: Ashley Glover with Helen Wright -- Matthew Jackson with Ruth Jackson -- Kaji Spellman with Karen Spellman -- Ruth Welter with Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Bernard Keith Jarvis with James Farmer -- Nicholas Osborne with Walter Fauntroy -- Taniza Holmes with Dorothy Peyton -- Latoya Thomas with Lawrence Still -- Zachary Gittens with Jennifer Lawson and Tony Gittens -- Kionna Brooks with Maurice Sorrell -- Asa Fager with Charles Fager -- "Ain' Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round": The Movement Shifts: The Struggle to End Poverty and Discrimination -- Interviews: Catherine Osborne with Ethel Minor -- Hakiba and Janali Thompson with Akili Ron Anderson -- Rashida Holman with Yuri Kochiyama -- Menelik Coates with Paul Coates -- Elliot Tarloff with Erik Tarloff -- Jonathan Botts with Marsha and Carlos Botts -- Wilson Myers with Kathleen O'Neill -- Maisha Williams with Tom Tarrants -- Christina Donovan with Demetrius Jordan and Maryam Brookins -- Rebecca and Carlos Lemos with Beatriz Otero and Arturo Flores -- Elizabeth Wilkins with Roger Wilkins -- Important Events of the Civil Rights Movement -- For Further Study.
| Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| Martha's Vineyard High School Library | 973.0496/KIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39844300002983 |
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| 973.0496/EME Emerson's antislavery writings / | 973.0496/GRE The Africans / | 973.0496/HOO The African American family album / | 973.0496/KIN Oh, freedom! : | 973.04960/LAN Slave narratives : | 973.0496/MCR Freedom's child : | 973.0496/MEL There comes a time : |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 128-129) and index.
"Been in the Storm So Long": Life Under Segregation -- Interviews: Carian Gray with Charles Epps -- Brendan Byrne with Jacqueline Wilson -- Dana Little with Loretta Butler -- John Ford IV with John Ford III -- Justin Pratt with Marsha Pratt -- Alana Brevard with Marsha Brevard -- Nicole Bossard with Mary Bossard -- Jessica Nunez and Michael Spurgeon with Malaya Rucker -- Latoya Smith with Shirley Collins -- "Woke Up This Morning with My Mind on Freedom": The Movement to End Legalized Segregation -- Interviews: Ashley Glover with Helen Wright -- Matthew Jackson with Ruth Jackson -- Kaji Spellman with Karen Spellman -- Ruth Welter with Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Bernard Keith Jarvis with James Farmer -- Nicholas Osborne with Walter Fauntroy -- Taniza Holmes with Dorothy Peyton -- Latoya Thomas with Lawrence Still -- Zachary Gittens with Jennifer Lawson and Tony Gittens -- Kionna Brooks with Maurice Sorrell -- Asa Fager with Charles Fager -- "Ain' Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round": The Movement Shifts: The Struggle to End Poverty and Discrimination -- Interviews: Catherine Osborne with Ethel Minor -- Hakiba and Janali Thompson with Akili Ron Anderson -- Rashida Holman with Yuri Kochiyama -- Menelik Coates with Paul Coates -- Elliot Tarloff with Erik Tarloff -- Jonathan Botts with Marsha and Carlos Botts -- Wilson Myers with Kathleen O'Neill -- Maisha Williams with Tom Tarrants -- Christina Donovan with Demetrius Jordan and Maryam Brookins -- Rebecca and Carlos Lemos with Beatriz Otero and Arturo Flores -- Elizabeth Wilkins with Roger Wilkins -- Important Events of the Civil Rights Movement -- For Further Study.
Interviews between young people and people who took part in the civil rights movement accompany essays that describe the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African Americans.
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