This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson through prose and poetry. In 1968 she 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.
Themes & Content
- Genres
- Fiction
- Central Theme Categories
- Biography/Autobiography
- Oppression & Resilience
- Ethnicity
- Unspecified
- Gender Representation
- Boys/Men
- Girls/Women
- Race / Culture
- Black/African/African American
- Character Prominence
- Dominant Main
- Secondary
