Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

by Doreen Rappaport

Book Overview

A powerful trilogy concludes with a look at both famous and lesser-known forces in the ongoing struggle for civil rights. In the summer of 1955, Moses Wright braved mortal danger to testify against three white men accused of murdering Emmett Till -- a brutal event that helped to spur the American civil rights movement. Nine black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, headed out to a formerly white high school, despite warnings that "blood will run in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763619272
• ISBN13: 9780763619275
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 63 Pages
• Weight: 1.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.8" x 11.5"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7