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Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968
(2018)
By: Duncan, Alice Faye

Fiction

Book

Call Numbers:
J/FICTION/DUNCAN,A

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Kids' Fiction J/FICTION/DUNCAN,A Available

Details

PUBLISHED
Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2018]
©2018
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781629797182, 1629797189 :, 1629797189, 9781629797182
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Winner of the 2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Award

This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest

800L

Additional Credits

CREDITS

Christie, R. Gregory, 1971- illustrator

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SUBJECTS

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. -- Fiction.

King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968. -- Assassination -- Fiction.

Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 -- Fiction.

Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.

Picture books.

Historical fiction.

LOCAL SUBJECTS

Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book Award

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AHML Diversity book project -- Black interest

AHML Diversity book project -- Equity & social issues