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Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2018]
Physical Description
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Summary
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.
Subjects
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 > Juvenile literature.
- Labor movement > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- African Americans > Tennessee > Memphis > Social conditions > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968.
- Labor movement > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century.
- African Americans > Tennessee > Memphis > Social conditions > 20th century.
- Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Juvenile literature.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Assassination > Juvenile literature.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Assassination.