Title We shall overcome : heroes of the civil rights movement / Fred Powledge ; photographs by the author.

Publication Info.	New York : Scribner ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, [1993]
	©1993

Item Status

Location	Call No.	Status	OPAC Message	Public Note	Gift Note
Moore Children's & Young Adult Collection	CH/YA 323.1 Powled We 1993	Available	---		Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.

Edition	1st ed.
Description	viii, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
	age Children
Note	Includes index.
Summary	Examines the system of segregation that existed in the United States until the mid-twentieth century and discusses the civil rights movement that changed this system.
Contents	Way of life -- Separate and unequal -- Marchin' shoes -- Power of nonviolence -- Freedom summers -- Selma and beyond -- Growing up in Mississippi: Joyce Ladner -- "Troublemakers" in the Delta: June Johnson -- Getting out the vote in Mississippi: Leslie McLemore -- Becoming an activist: Charles Jones -- Black and white together: David Crosland, Val Coleman, Constance Curry -- Captain of the picket signs: Robert Mants.
Provenance	Gift of Phyllis Fantauzzo.
Subject	African Americans -- Civil rights -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Civil rights.
	Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil rights movements.
	United States.
	History.
Chronological Term	20th century
Subject	Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil rights workers.
Genre/Form	Biographies.
Subject	United States -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
	Race relations.
Chronological Term	1900 - 1999
Genre/Form	History.
	Juvenile works.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Online version: Powledge, Fred. We shall overcome. 1st ed. New York : Scribner ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1993 (OCoLC)623164323
ISBN	0684193620
	9780684193625