About This Book:
A celebration of twelve Black women who were pivotal to the civil rights movement and the fight for justice and equal rights in America.
You’ve heard the names Rosa Parks and Coretta Scott King, but what about the many other women who were crucial to the civil rights movement?
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.
An empowering, eye-opening look at how one person can impact greater change, this book is both a conversation starter and much-needed history lesson for our modern world.
*Review Contributed By Karen Yingling, Staff Reviewer*
Great Introduction to Black Women Activists
The artwork is very realistic and brightly colored; the outfits the women wear are captured particularly well. The backgrounds give great context for the sort of work being done. My favorite illustrations, however, might be the end papers, which have cameos of the women interspersed with buttons with slogans on them.
I know that I was enthralled with biographies as a child, and this is a great book for children who aren’t quite ready to sit still through the Rockridge Press’ The Story Of biographies or the Penguin Workshop Who Was books. It’s also an excellent addition to a multicultural collection of biographies such as Yang’s Yes We Will: Asian Americans Who Shaped This Country, Albee’s Troublemakers in Trousers or the Wallace’s First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great.
