How Photographs Helped Foster Peaceful Civil Rights Protests
Starred review from October 15, 2018
Grades 5-8 *Starred Review* The Captured History series continues to be top-tier nonfiction. Featuring a significant historical photograph on each book's cover, the titles then go on to explain the history behind it and the importance of the event. Lunch Counter Sit-Ins uses the 1960 photo of four African American college students attempting to integrate a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The photograph is used as a jumping-off point to discuss the sit-in movement, which was made possible, in part, by the proliferation of visual images. The texts for both books are thoughtfully and comprehensively written and are bolstered by many photographs as well chosen as the cover shot. The photographers of these now-iconic images are also profiled. Excellent choices for history shelves.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)
July 1, 2019
In 1960, four black college students quietly took their seats at a Woolworth's whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. By refusing to leave, they set into motion a powerful and effective move toward ending segregation in the South. Along with other archival photos, Jack Moebes's iconic photograph of the sit-in stands at the center of this empathetic, well-researched introduction to the civil rights movement. Reading list, timeline. Bib., glos., ind.
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