Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
$46.53
- Hardcover
48 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2010
Summary
A picture book celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in, when four college kids staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement.
Andrea Davis Pinkney uses poetic, powerful prose to tell the story of these four young men, who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s words of peaceful protest and dared to sit at the ‘whites only’ Woolworth’s lunch counter.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780316070164 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0316070165 |
| Author: | Andrea D. Pinkney, Brian Pinkney |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Little, Brown Young Readers |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 48 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2010 |
| Weight: | 520g |
| Dimensions: | 304mm x 236mm x 11mm |
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About The Author
Andrea D. Pinkney
Andrea Davis Pinkney is the author of many acclaimed picture books and young adult novels and works for Scholastic Publishing. Brian Pinkney has illustrated numerous books for children and he has written and illustrated several of his own books.
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