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Email Elizabeth:
elizabeth@elizabethpartridge.com
Viking Books Publicist:
Sara Zick
212-414-3561
Literary Agent:
Ken Wright
Writer's House
212-685-2400
Email Elizabeth:
elizabeth@elizabethpartridge.com
Viking Books Publicist:
Sara Zick
212-414-3561
Literary Agent:
Ken Wright
Writer's House
212-685-2400
The idea for Marching for Freedom came in like a huge wave, picked me up and carried me to the internet, the library, museums, and photographers’ archives. In early November 2008, I headed to Selma, Alabama to interview people who’d been kids and young adults during the march. Day after day in 1965, they’d protested, sung, and marched. They were threatened and bullied, jailed and beaten, then got up the next morning and headed out again. I was awed by their courage and determination.
The march was such a perfect microcosm of the whole civil rights movement. I wanted to jump up on my roof and yell: have you heard about this? Instead, I wove together the marchers’ stories and more than 50 photos that captured the turbulent three months in Selma and the heroic, celebratory march to Montgomery.
I hope this book will inspire kids and young adults to realize they can make a difference. Check out www.serve.gov, Obama’s clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities.
If a group of kids armed only with songs and determination could change history, so can we.
Publisher: Viking Juvenile
80 Pages, ages 10 and up.
ISBN-10: 0670011894
Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0670011896
I love researching and writing books, both fiction and nonfiction. I'm fascinated by courageous, artistic people. I also love to speak at schools and conferences.
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