Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

By Doreen Rappaport.

Nobody Gonna Turn Me 'Round: Stories and Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

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A powerful trilogy concludes with a look at both famous and lesser-known forces in the ongoing struggle for civil rights.In the summer of 1955, Moses Wright braved mortal danger to testify against three white men accused of murdering Emmett Till — a brutal event that helped to spur the American civil rights movement. Nine black teenagers in Little Rock, Arkansas, headed out to a formerly white high school, despite warnings that "blood will run in the streets." James Lawson trained activists not to fight back with fists or words, no matter how many billy clubs rained down on ...

ISBN(s)

0763619272, 9780763619275

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