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Marching For Freedom - Walk Together Children And Don't You Grow Weary (2011)

by Elizabeth Partridge(Favorite Author)

4.31 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1441892834 (ISBN13: 9781441892836)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Brilliance Audio

review 1: This book would be a great book for children because the book's main characters are children. This helps children relate to certain things the only thing about this book is that there is violence and deadly events. This book is a real inspiration for some people because it discusses Martin Luther King which is a great topic to teach in the classroom. A good thing about this book is that it provides photographs of the actual events and this emphasizes that these events took place is history. This also gives a rise to books that are non fiction because some students have a hard time finding interests in non fiction books. Another topic you can pull from this book is the cultural aspect of it. The book is about African Americans trying to live with "the whites". This is stil... morel a huge subject today so this would be a great topic to bring up in a classroom.
review 2: This book details the struggle faced by black Americans in Selma, Alabama to overcome the obstacles placed before them to register to vote. The story is centered on an historic march from Selma to Montgomery. Although it is told largely from the perspective of the young students involved in the struggle, the author does not soften the issue. Rather, Partridge uses descriptive language and direct quotations from participants of the events and combines them with powerful black and white photographs to tell an amazing story of perseverance and self-determination achieved through courageous and selfless non-violence. Partridge captures the ugliness of the blatant, unabashed racism that permeated nearly every aspect of life for black Americans living in Selma, Alabama. She wonderfully guides the reader through a quite dramatic and rather dreadful period of U.S. history. The stunning use of photographs taken of a variety of situations that took place in Selma as well as on the march from Selma to Montgomery have the effect of creating a window for the reader to look through and almost feel as though they were there. less

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