Their nonviolent approach, courage, and leadership helped inspire a nation to take peaceful action to promote equal rights for all. Andrea Davis Pinkney Disney-Hyperion, Juvenile Fiction - 208 pages 0 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified. Martin Luther King, Jr., decided to confront the segregation laws of the South in the 1960s. By sitting down together, they stood up for civil rights and created the perfect recipe for integration not only at the Woolworth's counter, but on buses and in communities throughout the South. Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Downis the true story of how four students, inspired by the words of Dr. Countless others of all races soon joined the cause following Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful words of peaceful protest. A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.Ĭourageously defying the WHITES ONLY edict of the area, four young black men took a stand against the injustice of segregation in America by sitting down at the lunch counter of a Woolworth's department store. The Red Pencil is a young adult novel by Andrea Davis Pinkney which recounts nearly ten months in the life of a 12-year-old Sudanese girl named Amira, from September 2003 to April 2004, as her village is destroyed in war and as she seeks to rise above hopelessness to attend school.

Sit-In by Andrea Davis Pinkney