Hunter-Gault,
Charlayne To The Mountaintop: My Journey Through the Civil Rights Movement
Macmillan Books/ Roaring Brook Press 2012 198p $22.99
978-1-59643-605-3 ms/hs VG-BN Nonfiction
This volume chronicles the Civil Rights
Movement, from the point of view of Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of
the first black students to integrate the University of Georgia. Supplemented with historical articles and
photos, this narrative gives personal insight into the lives of many of the
young participants in the movement,
including that of journalist Hunter-Gault. The narrative
represents six years, 1960 though 1965, and it is interspersed with details of her
journalistic career.
Each year is separated by facsimile newspaper stories and illustrated with archival photographs. Each newspaper story represented in the chapter headings is also included in the supplemental material at the end of the narrative.
Additional supplemental material includes a detailed time line running from 1787 to 2009 and a comprehensive bibliography and index. But it is Hunter-Gault’s own story that makes this book memorable. A very useful and readable addition to Civil Rights collections in middle and high school libraries.
Each year is separated by facsimile newspaper stories and illustrated with archival photographs. Each newspaper story represented in the chapter headings is also included in the supplemental material at the end of the narrative.
Additional supplemental material includes a detailed time line running from 1787 to 2009 and a comprehensive bibliography and index. But it is Hunter-Gault’s own story that makes this book memorable. A very useful and readable addition to Civil Rights collections in middle and high school libraries.
VG-BN Pat Naismith Civil Rights Movement, Race relations
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