Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968 / Alice Faye Duncan ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.
Material type: TextPublisher: Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2018]Edition: First editionDescription: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781629797182
- 1629797189
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile fiction
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination -- Juvenile fiction
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Assassination
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Juvenile literature
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- Sanitation Workers Strike (Memphis, Tennessee : 1968)
- 1900-1999
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 -- Juvenile fiction
- Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
- Labor movement -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- History -- 20th century
- African Americans -- Tennessee -- Memphis -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 -- Juvenile literature
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History
- JUVENILE FICTION -- Historical -- United States -- 20th Century
- JUVENILE FICTION -- People & Places -- United States -- African American
- JUVENILE FICTION -- Social Themes -- Prejudice & Racism
- African Americans -- Social conditions
- Assassination
- Labor movement
- Race relations
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile fiction
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- History -- Juvenile literature
- Memphis (Tenn.) -- History
- Tennessee -- Memphis
- [E] 23
- PZ7.D72653 Me 2018
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This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.