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Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968 / Alice Faye Duncan ; illustrated by R. Gregory Christie.

This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 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.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duncan, Alice Faye (Author)
Other Authors: Christie, R. Gregory, 1971- (Illustrator)
Other title:Sanitation strike of 1968.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Honesdale, Pennsylvania : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Juvenile fiction.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968 > Assassination > Juvenile fiction.
Sanitation Workers Strike, Memphis, Tenn., 1968 > Juvenile fiction.
Labor movement > Tennessee > Memphis > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
African Americans > Tennessee > Memphis > Social conditions > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
Memphis (Tenn.) > Race relations > History > 20th century > Juvenile fiction.
King, Martin Luther, > Jr., > 1929-1968.
Sanitation Workers Strike (Memphis, Tennessee : 1968)
African Americans > Social conditions.
Assassination.
Labor movement.
Race relations.
Tennessee > Memphis.
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Picture books.

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Holdings details from Norlin Library - Children's and Young Adult Stacks
Call Number: PZ7.D8947 M46 2018
PZ7.D8947 M46 2018 Available Place a Hold

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