Oh, Freedom!: Kids Talk About the Civil Rights Movement With the People Who Made It Happen - Hardcover

King, Casey; Osborne, Linda Barrett

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0613056213 ISBN 13: 9780613056212

Synopsis

Describes the history of efforts to make equality a reality for African Americans

About this title

Review

" This book is important for the stories it tells, the pictures it shows, and especially for its prevailing message." --"School Library Journal" (starred review)
" The essays are sophisticated...but the interviews will grab elementary-grade readers." --"Booklist"
" This is must reading for all who are interested in America's struggle for racial justice, then and now." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

-This book is important for the stories it tells, the pictures it shows, and especially for its prevailing message.---School Library Journal (starred review)
-The essays are sophisticated...but the interviews will grab elementary-grade readers.---Booklist
-This is must reading for all who are interested in America's struggle for racial justice, then and now.---Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

"This book is important for the stories it tells, the pictures it shows, and especially for its prevailing message."--School Library Journal (starred review)

"The essays are sophisticated...but the interviews will grab elementary-grade readers."--Booklist

"This is must reading for all who are interested in America's struggle for racial justice, then and now."--Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

About the Author

Casey King is a writer and an award-winning documentary filmmaker who founded the Tanner Film Group, a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting racial harmony through the media. He has taught in Washington, D.C. schools. This is his first children's book.

Linda Barrett Osborne is an award-winning short story writer, an editor, and a book reviewer for both The Washington Post and the New York Times.

Edition details

• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0613056213
• ISBN 13: 9780613056212
• Binding: Hardcover