Format:
Book
Title:
Justice rising : 12 amazing Black women in the Civil Rights Movement / written by Katheryn Russell-Brown ; illustrated by Kim Holt.
Author:
Russell-Brown, Katheryn, 1961- author.
Call Number:
j323.092 Russell
Publisher, Date:
New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2023.
Description:
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary:
"Told through twelve short biographies, this book celebrates just some of the many Black women--each of whom has been largely underrepresented until now--who were instrumental to the nation's fight for civil rights and the contributions they made in driving the Movement forward"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:
African American women civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Picture books.
African Americans -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
African American civil rights workers.
Civil rights workers.
African Americans.
Women -- Biography.
Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
United States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
Genre:
Biographies.
Picture books.
Creative nonfiction.
Other Author:
Holt, Kim, 1968- illustrator.
Other Title:
Twelve amazing Black women in the Civil Rights Movement
Contents:
Ella Baker -- Ruby Bridges -- Claudette Colvin -- Dorothy Cotton -- Fannie Lou Hamer -- Coretta Scott King -- Diane Nash -- Rosa Parks -- Bernice Johnson Reagon -- Gloria Richardson -- Jo Ann Robinson -- Sheyann Webb -- Freedom marchers.
ISBN:
9780593403549
0593403541