Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968 / Alice Faye Duncan ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.

Title:

ISBN:

9781629797182

Personal Author:

Duncan, Alice Faye

Edition:

First edition.

Publication Information:

Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2018]

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Summary:

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.

Program Information:

Accelerated Reader MG 4.9 0.5 197315

Personal Subject:

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

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

Geographic Term:

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

Subject Term:

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

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

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

Black people--Tennessee--Memphis -- Social conditions 20th century -- Fiction

Genre:

Picture books

Added Author:

Christie, R. Gregory, 1971-

Audience:

800L Lexile

OCLC Number:

on1049177287

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