Brimner,
Larry Dane. Black & White. Boyd's Mills/Calkins Creek 112p $16.95 978-1-59078-766-3 ms/hs E-BN
This pictorial history of the
confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor takes readers
through the years of the late 1950s to the mid 1960s when the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing. The author has chosen Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth to follow during
this era,
and although he is not as famous as some other African Americans, he did play a major role in fighting and confronting Bull Connor. The progression of the confrontation led Bull Connor to ignore the
fact that the whole world was watching it on TV. Despite the violence shown the African American marchers, which left many of
them injured, their persistence won the day.
The pictures in this book chronicle the movement for civil rights and
the violence it encountered. It is an excellent
book to complement the African American curriculum, with plenty of photos, little known
facts, an author’s note, a bibliography, and source notes. -- Magna Diaz
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