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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
- Author
- Paula Young Shelton
- Narrator
- Paula Young Shelton
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish Date
- 27 July 2021
- Run Time
- 25 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
How did it feel to sit down to dinner with grown-ups who planned protests between bites of Mama’s creamy macaroni and cheese?And imagine walking right beside Uncle Martin and Aunt Coretta in that historic
march from Selma to Montgomery—until your legs were so tired that you had to ride on your father’s back.
Paula Young Shelton, a daughter of civil rights leader Andrew Young, takes readers on a vivid trip back to Paula’s childhood in an extraordinary family—the family of the American civil rights movement.
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- Author
- Paula Young Shelton
- Narrator
- Paula Young Shelton
- Duration
- 25 minutes
- Release Date
- 27 July 2021
- ISBN
- 9781705043455
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Recorded Books, Inc.
- Genre
- Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Families and family members, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past
Synopsis
What was it like growing up in the Deep South when Jim Crow laws were everywhere?How did it feel to sit down to dinner with grown-ups who planned protests between bites of Mama’s creamy macaroni and cheese?And imagine walking right beside Uncle Martin and Aunt Coretta in that historic march from Selma to Montgomery—until your legs were so tired that you had to ride on your father’s back.Paula Young Shelton, a daughter of civil rights leader Andrew Young, takes readers on a vivid trip back to Paula’s childhood in an extraordinary family—the family of the American civil rights movement.
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