Child of the Civil Rights Movement

In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year Paula Young Shelton daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young brings a child's unique perspective to an important chapter in America's history. Paula grew up in the deep south in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King) Paula watched and listened to the struggles eventually joining with her family--and thousands of others--in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery. <p/> Poignant moving and hopeful this is an intimate look at the birth of the Civil Rights Movement.