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Evicted! : the struggle for the right to vote / Alice Faye Duncan ; art by Charly Palmer.

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Edition: First editionDescription: 63 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Audience:
  • Children
ISBN:
  • 1684379792
  • 9781684379798
Other title:
  • Struggle for the right to vote
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 323.1196
LOC classification:
  • E185.61 .D868 2022
Contents:
Mapping a movement -- Tent city profiles -- Prologue to freedom -- Big Man blues -- The legend of Burton Dodson -- John the revelator -- The ghost of Thomas Brooks -- Harpman goes to war -- Minnie joins the fight -- The good shepherd -- People in the tents -- John and Viola -- Charlie Outsider -- Big Man speaks -- Golden -- Epilogue -- Fayette County timeline.
Summary: This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history.
List(s) this item appears in: Voting
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Picture Book Picture Book NMC Library Picture Book Collection PZ9.1 .D868 2022 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001500742

Includes bibliographical references (pages 61-62).

Mapping a movement -- Tent city profiles -- Prologue to freedom -- Big Man blues -- The legend of Burton Dodson -- John the revelator -- The ghost of Thomas Brooks -- Harpman goes to war -- Minnie joins the fight -- The good shepherd -- People in the tents -- John and Viola -- Charlie Outsider -- Big Man speaks -- Golden -- Epilogue -- Fayette County timeline.

This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history.

1080L.

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