Description
Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris Soentpiet to tell this outstanding (School Library Journal) and inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement that would change the world as we know it.
Mother Dear, one day Im going to turn this world upside down.
Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the 1930s taught young Martin a bitter lessonlittle white children and little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the journey that would change the course of American history.
Author: Christine King Farris
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
Published: 12/01/2005
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.95h x 11.95w x 0.15d
ISBN: 9780689843884
Language: English
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