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Book

Rise up! : powerful protests in American history

Call Number

  • J 303.484 KATZ (CEN, EAS, OSH, POW, WSQ)

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Publication Information

Concord, MA : Barefoot Books, 2025.

Physical Description

47 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 26 cm

Audience

006-008.

Summary

In rhyming text, briefly describes twenty-five moments of protest in United States history.

Notes

Illustrations rendered in gouache.

Contents

  • We take action! Boston Tea Party
  • We sing out! Marian Anderson's Lincoln Memorial concert
  • We write books! Silent Spring and The Jungle
  • We make art! Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Nast, sanitation workers' strike, Dorothea Lange, Lewis Hine, The Silent Sentinels, Keith Haring, Voting age protests
  • Sometimes we start a movement... Seneca Falls Convention
  • ...And sometimes we continue the work. Dakota Access Pipeline protests
  • We make laws! Brom and Bett v. Ashley; United States v. Wong Kim Ark; Loving v. Virginia; Obergefell v. Hodges
  • Sometimes we protest peacefully...Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins
  • ...But not always. Robert Smalls's escape
  • Sometimes we protest by showing up... The Capitol Crawl and first Pride parades
  • ...And sometimes we protest by going away. uprising of the 20,000 and Delano grape strike
  • Sometimes we protest together... un-dam the Klamath
  • ...And sometimes a revolution is lonely. Ruby Bridges's school walk
  • Timeline of events
  • Map of events
  • Learn more about the events.

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Added Authors

Sophie Bass