Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers

by Julia Pferdehirt

When William "Blue" Jenkins was only six months old, he moved with his parents from a Mississippi sharecropper's farm to the industrial city of Racine, Wisconsin with dreams of a new life. As an African-American in the pre-civil rights era, Blue came face to face with racism: the Ku Klux Klan hung a black figure in effigy from a tree in the Jenkins family's yard. Growing up, Blue knew where blacks could shop, eat, and get a job in Racine--and where...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870204270
• ISBN13: 9780870204272
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 7 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 7