Let the Children March

Let the Children March

"I couldn't play on the same playground as the white kids. I couldn't go to their schools.  
I couldn't drink from their water fountains. There were so many things I couldn't do."

In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their civil rights after hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak.

They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Facing fear, hate, and danger, these children used their voices to change the world. Frank Morrison's emotive oil-on-canvas paintings bring this historical event to life, while Monica Clark-Robinson's moving and poetic words document this remarkable time. 

• Hardcover, 40 pages
• 9" x 11"
• Coretta Scott King Honor Award for Illustration 2019
• Kirkus’ Best Picture Books of 2018
• Chicago Public Library’s Best of 2018
• The Children’s Book Review Best of nonfiction 2018

Monica Clark-Robinson is passionate about stories--writing them, acting them out on stage, and reading them. She believes that the stories of our past can help us create the story for our future. She lives in Arkansas. 
 
Frank Morrison has illustraover 20 illustrated children’s books, including the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award winner, Jazzy Miz Mozetta and the Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor book, Little Melba and her Big Trombone. Frank lives in Georgia with his family.