Marching for Freedom
Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
More than forty years ago in the U.S., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was leading a fight to win Blacks the right to vote. Ground zero for the movement became Selma, Alabama.
Author Elizabeth Partridge leads you straight into the chaotic, passionate, and deadly three months of protests that culminated in the landmark march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965. Focusing on the courageous children who faced terrifying violence in order to march alongside King, this is an inspiring look at their fight for the vote.
Editor Catherine Frank and designer Jim Hoover go over proofs of
Marching in the Viking office
Awards & Accolades
- Boston Globe-Horn Book Award
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Literature
- Jane Addams Children’s Book Award
- School Library Journal’s Battle of the Books
- 2011 Tayshas Reading List
- Int’l Reading Association Teachers’ Choice Children’s Book Council 2010: Notable Social Studies Trade Books
- International Reading Association 2010 Notable Books for a Global Society Capitol Choices Noteworthy Books for Children
- ALA Notable Children’s Book
- ALA Best Books for Young Adults
- Booklist Editors’ Choice: Books for Youth
- Horn Book Fanfare Choice
- Kirkus Reviews Best Children and YA Books
- Publishers Weekly Best Children’s Books
- School Library Journal Best Books of the Year
- Booklist’s Top Ten Black History Books for Youth
- New York Public Library’s Children’s Books 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing California Book Award: Young Adult Finalist
- Pennsylvania School Librarians Association YA Top Forty
“Elizabeth Partridge takes the past off its pedestal and shows how ordinary people, children among them, can sometimes tip the balance and help determine the outcome of events. Drawing on archival photographs and interviews with marchers who were as young as 10 at the time, Partridge swiftly sets the stage for the political war of nerves that culminated in the walk from Selma to Montgomery.” —The New York Times Book Review
★ “Effective and meaningful archival photographs, quotes, poems, and songs are woven throughout the narrative, giving readers a real sense of the children’s mindset and experiences.” —School Library Journal, starred review
★ “A perfect balance of energetic prose and well-selected, breath-taking photographs.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
★ “A sharply focused historical narrative for a younger audience. Partridge once again demonstrates why she is almost peerless in her photo selection.” —The Horn Book, starred review
★ “The vivid text is filled with quotes collected from Partridge’s personal interviews. Every spread brings readers up close to the dramatic, often violent action.” —Booklist, starred review
★ “A dramatic and a memorable statement.” —VOYA, starred review★ “A sharply focused historical narrative for a younger audience. Partridge once again demonstrates why she is almost peerless in her photo selection.” —The Horn Book, starred review
A policeman escorts teen marchers to jail following
a demonstration in front of the courthouse, Selma, 1965.
Library of Congress.
Marchers with Flags by Matt Herron
Martin Luther King, Jr
Selma on Bloody Sunday
Teargas on Bloody Sunday