Book Descriptions
for Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The year is 1963, and 14-year-old Isaac wants to go to the March on Washington. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s preaching and teaching about nonviolence inspired Isaac and other African-American youth from church to become active in this dimension of the struggle for equality. Reverend Cable has confidence in Isaac's leadership, but for some reason Isaac's daddy doesn't, even though the men are longtime friends who also went together to Korea to fight in the war. Family and community tensions build, especially after a bombing of the church building causes tragic deaths in this Alabama community. Effective dialogue develops characterizations and moves the plot that tells about the church involvement of some of the courageous African-American youth in the Civil Rights Movement. (Ages 11-14)
CCBC Choices 1992. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1992. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
"Fourteen-year-old Ike Stone and his pals are thrilled to be a part of the Civil Rights movement sweeping the Deep South in the 1960s, but the depth of racial hatred is brought painfully home when two of their friends are killed in a bombing. . . . Noted theater figure Davis has loaded enough action and emotional energy for two novels into his tale".--Publishers Weekly. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
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