Child of the Civil Rights Movement
- ISBN-10
- 0385376065
- ISBN-13
- 9780385376068
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 48
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dragonfly
- Author
- Paula Young Shelton
Description
The author, the daughter of Andrew Young, describes the participation of Martin Luther King, Jr., along with her father and others, in the civil rights movement and in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
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