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Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day
Kathlyn J. Kirkwood
Illustrator: Steffi Walthall
Ages: 12+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Versify/Houghton Mifflin/HarperCollins
ISBN: 978-0-358-38726-8
Keywords: racial discrimination, activism, civil rights, persistence
In free verse, Kirkwood relates her lifelong involvement with the civil rights movement and the establishment of the national holiday honoring Dr. King. Greyscale drawings, archival photographs, and documents.