Book Descriptions
for Just Like Martin by Ossie Davis
From Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
The year is 1963, and 14-year-old Isaac wants to go to the March on Washington. Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s preaching and teaching about nonviolence inspired Isaac and other African-American youth from church to become active in this dimension of the struggle for equality. Reverend Cable has confidence in Isaac's leadership, but for some reason Isaac's daddy doesn't, even though the men are longtime friends who also went together to Korea to fight in the war. Family and community tensions build, especially after a bombing of the church building causes tragic deaths in this Alabama community. Effective dialogue develops characterizations and moves the plot that tells about the church involvement of some of the courageous African-American youth in the Civil Rights Movement. (Ages 11-14)
CCBC Choices 1992. © Cooperative Children's Book Center, Univ. of Wisconsin - Madison, 1992. Used with permission.
From the Publisher
It is August 28, 1968, the day of the Freedom March on Washington, D.C. Everyone in town is going---except Isaac Stone. His father, a bitter Korean War veteran, forbids it. Nonviolence is the same as cowardice, he says. But Stone has heard Martin Luther King, Jr., preach, and he wants to follow in his footsteps. He is sure he will change his father's mind---until their church is bombed and two of his classmates are killed. Can Stone conquer his own anger and live up to his dream?
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