Full name: Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down

Author: Andrea Davis Pinkney Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Children, Picture books, Non Fiction, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780316070164

It was February 1, 1960. They didn't need menus. Their order was simple. A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side. This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement. Andrea Davis Pinkney uses poetic, powerful prose to tell the story of these four young men, who followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s words of peaceful protest and dared to sit at the "whites only" Woolworth's lunch counter. Brian Pinkney embraces a new artistic style, creating expressive paintings filled with emotion that mirror the hope, strength, and determination that fueled the dreams of not only these four young men, but also countless others. Similar books: Dear Benjamin Banneker by Andrea Davis Pinkney Child of the Civil Rights Movement by Paula Young Shelton Freedom on the Menu by Carole Boston Weatherford Boycott Blues by Andrea Davis Pinkney Let the Children March by Monica Clark-Robinson A Sweet Smell of Roses by Angela Johnson If A Bus Could Talk by Faith Ringgold Seeds of Freedom by Hester Bass Freedom Riders by Ann Bausum Freedom's Children by Ellen Levine Back of the Bus by Aaron Reynolds The Youngest Marcher by Cynthia Levinson Of Thee I Sing by Barack Obama Her Right Foot by Dave Eggers This Is the Dream by Diane Z. Shore As Good as Anybody by Richard Michelson Tibet by Peter Sis Lightship by Brian Floca Coming to America by Betsy Maestro The Story of the Pilgrims by Katharine Ross