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From: Ellen Levine <ellenlev_at_verizon.net>
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:40:37 -0400
For my book "Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories" (HC 1993; pb 2000), I interviewed dozens of African Americans who were young people during the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and were actively involved in movement activities -- Montgomery Bus Boycott, school integration efforts, actions and events in Birmingham, Mississippi Freedom Summer, Selma. When I speak in schools, I tell these stories to elementary kids as well as at middle and HS programs. It's quite moving to see how the young ones "get it" -- they understand the injustice and cruelty of, e.g., bus segregation when it's explained graphically. I've also been invited to attend programs at schools where kids from different grades, paralleling the young people in the book, step into the shoes, as it were, of the movement kids, and read and speak their words. An incredibly moving experience for me.
ellen www.ellenlevineauthor.com
Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:40:37 -0400
For my book "Freedom's Children: Young Civil Rights Activists Tell Their Own Stories" (HC 1993; pb 2000), I interviewed dozens of African Americans who were young people during the 40s, 50s, and 60s, and were actively involved in movement activities -- Montgomery Bus Boycott, school integration efforts, actions and events in Birmingham, Mississippi Freedom Summer, Selma. When I speak in schools, I tell these stories to elementary kids as well as at middle and HS programs. It's quite moving to see how the young ones "get it" -- they understand the injustice and cruelty of, e.g., bus segregation when it's explained graphically. I've also been invited to attend programs at schools where kids from different grades, paralleling the young people in the book, step into the shoes, as it were, of the movement kids, and read and speak their words. An incredibly moving experience for me.
ellen www.ellenlevineauthor.com
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