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Partridge, Elizabeth

Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary

72 pp. | Viking | October, 2009 | Trade ISBN 978-0-670-01189-6 $19.99

(1) 4-6 Partridge writes about the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery from the viewpoint of children and teenagers who participated. Their recollections, culled largely from author interviews, perfectly balance and complement the information about the adults--Martin Luther King, George Wallace, Lyndon Johnson--that typically dominate historical accounts. The accompanying archival photographs have a moral impact as well as a visual one. Bib., ind.

Reviewer: Jonathan Hunt | Horn Book Magazine Issue: November, 2009