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Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop

The Sanitation Strike of 1968

This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike — Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination — when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.

In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help, but it would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon in Mason Temple Church. Author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.

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"Duncan writes in fervent free verse from the perspective of Lorraine Jackson, a fictional girl whose father joins the strike and who is loosely based on Almella Starks-Umoja, a teacher who marched in strike protests with her parents as a child. Lorraine’s narrative is passionate and personal: 'My daddy... marched for better pay. He marched for decent treatment. My daddy marched for me'.... Christie’s vivid, emotive gouache paintings feature a montage of powerful panoramas and portraits, including those of the protesters, King, and Lorraine’s family." — Publishers Weekly

Product Details

Recommended Age 9 - 12
Author Alice Faye Duncan
Illustrator R. Gregory Christie
ISBN 1629797189
Publication Date Aug 28, 2018
Publisher Calkins Creek
Award Winners Coretta Scott King Award
Language English