Told from a child\'s point of view, this moving picture book focuses on a monumental moment in the civil rights movement: the Children\'s Crusade of 1963.
Frank Morrison\'s emotive oil-on-canvas paintings bring this historical event to life, while Monica Clark-Robinson\'s moving and poetic words document this remarkable time..
Facing fear, hate, and danger, these Children used their voices to change the world.
They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. speak.
Martin Luther King Jr.
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American Children volunteered to March for their civil rights after hearing Dr.
There were so many things I couldn\'t do.
I couldn\'t drink from their water fountains.
I couldn\'t go to their schools.
Coretta Scott King Honor Award for Illustration 2019 I couldn\'t play on the same playground as the white kids.
Full color.
Thousands of African-American Children and teens marched through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, to end segregation and to inspire change and hope for the future.
Told from a child\'s point of view, this moving picture book focuses on a monumental moment in the civil rights movement: the Children\'s Crusade of 1963
