The teachers march! : how Selma's teachers changed history

Wallace, Sandra Neil (author.). Wallace, Rich, (author.). Palmer, Charly, (illustrator.).

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ISBN: 162979452X
ISBN: 9781629794525
ISBN: 162979452X : HRD
ISBN: 9781629794525 : HRD
ISBN: 9781629794525
ISBN: 162979452X
Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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Edition: First edition
Publisher: New York : Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyd Mills & Kane, [2020]
Copyright: ©2020

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"Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers and their family members in order to tell this story, which is especially important today" --