The Teachers March! How Selma's Teachers Changed History

ISBN-10: 162979452X
ISBN-13: 9781629794525
Author: Wallace, Sandra Neil and Rich
Illustrated by: Palmer, Charly
Interest Level: 2-5
Publisher: Boyds Mills Press

Publication Date: September 2020

Copyright: 2020

Page Count: 48

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Interest Level

Grades 2-5

Reading Level

Guided Reading: S
Lexile: 700L
Accelerated Reader Level: 4.5
Accelerated Reader Points: 0.5

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / Prejudice & Racism

JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century

Description
Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selma Teachers' March, featuring evocative illustrations and eyewitness testimonies. Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers and their family members in order to tell this important story.
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