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    Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
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    Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary

    Written by Elizabeth Partridge

    Narrated by Alan Bomar Jones

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    The eerie silence was broken only by the sound of scuffling feet as marchers approached the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. The mood was sober. Hundreds of men, women, and children had been protesting in Selma for weeks to win black Americans the right to vote. They'd been threatened. Been arrested. Jailed. This march was likely to end in violence, yet they went anyway. But when state troopers attacked with billy clubs and tear gas, the brute force was a shock. Many were injured, including children.

    But not even Bloody Sunday, as March 7 came to be known, was enough to deter the marchers. Led by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., they were committed to the voting rights movement despite the risks. Not even the youngest protestors gave up, and their defiance and courage were inspiring. Without them the struggle in Selma - which culminated in a five-day march to Montgomery - might have failed.

    Marching for Freedom tells the story of how ordinary kids helped change history. Award-winning author Elizabeth Partridge explores the events at Selma from their point of view, drawing on vivid recollections of some of those who marched as children. Dramatic photographs capture the danger and spirit in Selma during the turbulent spring of 1965 and offer a stunning visual narrative to the audio.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateFeb 1, 2011
    ISBN9781441868817
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    Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
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    Elizabeth Partridge

    Elizabeth Partridge is the author of This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie, winner of the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, and other acclaimed works. She and her husband live in the San Francisco Bay area.

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    • 5/5
      This is the story of the march on Montgomery, Alabama in 1965. The events of this story take place in a limited time frame. After a brief stop in 1963 to look at disenfranchisement of black voters in Selma, Alabama, the author jumps to 1965 to tell us about the events of and leading up to the march. Though Martin Luther King, Jr. makes an appearance, and it is clear that he is a monumental figure in the movement as gauged by the exuberant reactions of the locals to his presence, the real stars of this story are those on the ground. At the center of this story is the participation of the young students in the demonstrations. The endured the jails and the violence even before their teachers did. We are introduced to characters like Joanne, who was arrested for the first time when she was just ten years old, and her older sister Lynda. The reader gets an appreciation for the strength of these children and the repulsiveness of what they endured. The depictions of violence in the text are surprisingly graphic, considering the target audience, and expectedly heart-wrenching. This is a compelling story, reinforced by equally impactful photography, with lessons about an important episode in our nation’s history,
    • 5/5
      “Don’t worry about your children. Don’t hold them back if they want to go to jail…They are carving a tunnel of hope through the great mountain of despair.” These were the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to the crowd that had gathered in Brown Chapel in Selma, Alabama. The year was 1965 and the Civil Rights movement in the United States was in full swing. In Selma, children and teenagers were some of the most involved freedom fighters. In Marching for Freedom: Walk Together Children and Don't You Grow Weary, author Elizabeth Partridge focuses on the stories of several children who participated in the freedom marches in Selma. Despite the dangers of getting beaten, thrown in prison, and even gassed, the children and teenagers of Selma refused to back down and show fear. They participated in the march over Pettus Bridge, which later became known as Bloody Sunday. One girl was beaten so badly on her head that her hair later needed to be shaved off so she could receive the thirty stitches necessary to close her wound. Despite such horrors, she and her friends participated in the march from Selma to the state capital in Montgomery, even though they marched through a county that was a well-known hot seat for the KKK. The students who participated in these marches would sing freedom songs when their spirits were down and rally everyone else around them. Marching for Freedom is a glimpse into a time of American history when people were willing to stand up for what they believed in, even the youngest Americans. It specifically covers the time period from January to August of 1965 and reveals how those few short months and the people of Selma were instrumental in the passing of the Voting Rights Act. It illustrates the influence that young people can and did have on society. The book is arranged chronologically leading up to the march to Montgomery. Once the march begins, the books chapters are divided up by counting the days of the march (“Day One, Day Two,” etc.) and have the day and date as well as the end goal of the march that day. This organization makes the book easy to follow. There are pictures on every two page spread with captions, and they are always pictures of what the book is covering on those pages. This format makes the text--which is divided into two columns-- seem less daunting and allows readers to see the actual participants, and in some cases the events, of the time. This book is best suited for grades 6 and up. 
    • 4/5
      This is a powerful book that will be well-used by older elementary school children. Partridge has taken compelling black and white photos from the time around the march from Selma to Montgomery and included voices of young people from that time to make an instantly compelling narrative of nonviolence. It is truly amazing to consider all the hundreds of schoolchildren who went to jail for their equality and voting rights. But this is almost lost in the story of the dangerous march from Selma to Montgomery. One of the most interesting things I read in the author's note at the end was the fact that it was the people of Selma themselves who got the change they desired by their values and beliefs. Even though this book is slim (less than 70 pages of text and photos), it is not for young children - the descriptions of the violence are true, but graphic. I also think that it would be older elementary school children who would be inspired by their action. There is an index, source notes and photo credits for the student who is researching.