Child of the Civil Rights Movement

In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.

Poignant, moving, and hopeful, this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.

• Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins
• If You Were a Kid During the Civil Rights Movement
• We March
• Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down (Jane Addams Honor Book (Awards))
• The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
• Let the Children March
• A Sweet Smell of Roses
• Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez and Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation (Jane Addams Award Book (Awards))
• Freedom Summer
• The Story Of Ruby Bridges: Special Anniversary Edition