Pulitzer Prize-winning author Diane McWhorter, drawing on the research behind her adult book Carry Me Home, distills the national civil rights movement for young readers, tracing events from the 1954 Brown v. Board decision to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination in 1968.
Written partly from her own memory as a white child growing up in segregated Birmingham, McWhorter covers the Freedom Rides, the Birmingham demonstrations, and the era’s key figures, illustrated with more than 120 archival photographs.
Published 2004
160 pages
$15.00