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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down - Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney
Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
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It was February 1, 1960.They didn't need menus. Their order was simple.A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a... show more
It was February 1, 1960.They didn't need menus. Their order was simple.A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students 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. Brian Pinkney embraces a new artistic style, creating expressive paintings filled with emotion that mirror the hope, strength, and determination that fueled the dreams of not only these four young men, but also countless others.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780316070164 (0316070165)
Pages no: 40
Edition language: English
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MargaretBolingMullin
MargaretBolingMullin rated it
5.0 Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))
2/2/2011 ** This past weekend, I had the opportunity to hear Andrea & Brian Pinkney, a husband/wife team, talk about their book projects.Sit-In is about the lunch-counter sit-in movement that started exactly 51 years ago on 2/1/1960 in Greensboro, NC. The author, Andrea Pinkney, has chosen two meta...
AmySea
AmySea rated it
Very well done book. My niece learned about MLK Jr. and Rosa Parks this year, and she immediately grasped what was presented in this book. I asked her lots of questions about what she was hearing and seeing here, and this enabled me to confirm that she was understanding what this story was telling...
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