Birmingham, 1963

Birmingham, 1963By: Carole Boston Weatherford A Jane Addams Children's Honor Book Written by Children's Literature Legacy Award winner Carole Boston Weatherford, this poetic tribute to the victims of the racially motivated church bombing that served as a seminal event in the struggle for civil rights is a book that captures the heartbreak of that day, as seen through the eyes of a fictional witness. In 1963, the eyes of the world were on Birmingham, Alabama, a

He wakes with an agonizing headache

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Marshall presents the revisionist view of the Battle of the Little Bighorn that has been available only in the Lakota oral tradition

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in people’s own words and through photographs and time lines that commemorate important dates and events

writers and ordinary men and women