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
Genres: Fiction
Categories: Biography, Oppression & Resilience
Content: Activism, Economic Struggle
Settings: Northern America, Tennessee, United States of America
Ethnicity: Unspecified
Gender: Boy/Man, Girl/Woman
Race/Culture: Black/African/African American
Character Prominence: Dominant Main, Secondary