. . . If You Lived at the Time of Martin Luther King
by Ellen Levine
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Author: Ellen LevineIllustrator: Beth Peck
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1994-01-01
ISBN: 059042582X
Number of pages: 72
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Book Review: A history of the sacrifice that led to the United States being poised to elect a black man president
Summary: 5 Stars
Last night, my wife Kathy and I watched the second debate in the United States 2008 presidential election and there were some black people in the audience. When one of the older black people walked up to Barack Obama after it was over and had their picture taken with him, I turned to Kathy and said, "Just think what she must be thinking, she is old enough to remember segregation and now it looks like a black man will be president."
Young people are heavily favoring Obama, yet they really do not know much about how in the recent past it was difficult to impossible for black people to vote or even execute their rights. This book, written for the person in late elementary school, is a brief yet reasonably thorough explanation of the plight of blacks and the civil rights movement. This movement was much later coming that it should have been; yet when it did it was unstoppable. As is made clear in this book, not even the pain of death was enough to keep the dedicated people from marching and speaking out against the ills of racism.
Now that the country is poised to elect Barack Obama president, we can look at it with pride. However, we must never forget the pain and suffering that was endured in getting to this point, which makes this book so valuable as a historical retrospective on how we got here.
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