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Description
Three starred reviews!
Meet Diane Nash, a civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, in this "poignant and powerful" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) nonfiction picture book that "highlights major moments in Nash's life" (The Horn Book, starred review).
Diane grew up in the southside of Chicago in the 1940s. As a university student, she visited the Tennessee State Fair in 1959. Shocked to see a bathroom sign that read For Colored Women, Diane learned that segregation in the South went beyond schools--it was part of daily life. She decided to fight back, not with anger or violence, but with strong words of truth and action.
Finding a group of like-minded students, including student preacher John Lewis, Diane took command of the Nashville Movement. They sat at the lunch counters where only white people were allowed and got arrested, day after day. Leading thousands of marchers to the courthouse, Diane convinced the mayor to integrate lunch counters. Then, she took on the Freedom Rides to integrate bus travel, garnering support from Martin Luther King Jr. and then the president himself--John F. Kennedy.
Publication date
January 10, 2023
Genre
Non-fiction
ISBN-13
9781534451032
Publisher
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
BISAC categories
JNF018010 - Juvenile Nonfiction | People & Places | United States - African-American JNF007110 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists JNF023000 - Juvenile Nonfiction | Girls & Women
Library of Congress categories
History African Americans African American women civil rights workers Civil rights workers United States Civil rights movements 20th century Civil rights Women Race relations Nash, Diane
Hornbook
Starred Review
During the 1960s, Diane Nash was one of the most influential and effective leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, yet most people don’t know who she is.” Wallace’s latest picture-book collaboration with Collier seeks to correct that ....the book opens with images of Nash’s parents cradling her as a baby and then of Nash, as a small child, being hugged by her grandmother, highlighting the love that encouraged her activism.
Publishers Weekly
Starred Review
Born in Chicago, civil rights activist Diane Nash (b. 1938) grows up in a diverse, integrated community until moving to Tennessee for college, where she first encounters segregation: "Two signs for bathrooms: WHITE and COLORED." Determined to "change wrong into right" through peaceful protest, Nash demonstrates against the ban on integrated seating at lunch counters, confronts Nashville's mayor, and participates in freedom rides, all along showing that "Love is fierce./ Love is strong./ Love is loud!" Wallace's emotive second-person text condenses Nash's extensive activism into an inspiring meditation on love as the heart of justice, while Collier's watercolor and collage illustrations bring artful dimension to Nash's nonviolent resistance. Back matter includes creators' notes and suggested reading material. Ages 4-8. (Jan.)
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Kirkus
Starred Review
A poignant and powerful portrayal of the life and work of an unsung civil rights activist.
An investigative journalist of Ukrainian heritage, Sandra Neil Wallace is the author of almost a dozen books for children, some co-written with her husband Rich Wallace. Her titles include Race Against Time, winner of the Carter G. Woodson Award; Marjory Saves the Everglades, winner of the FLA Children’s Book Award; and The Teachers March, an Orbus Pictus Honor book. A former ESPN reporter and the first woman to cover the National Hockey League on network TV, she is the recipient of the Outstanding Women of New Hampshire Award and creates change as cofounder of The Daily Good, a nonprofit bringing twenty thousand free, culturally diverse foods to college students each year through its Global Foods Pantries.
