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Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement
Angela Joy
Illustrator: Janelle Washington
Ages: 9+
Published: 2022
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press/Holzbrinck
ISBN: 978-1-250-22095-0
Keywords: Discrimination, lynching, African-Americans, legislation, mothers and sons
The resourcefulness and steel of a mother seeking justice for her son's heinous murder is dramatized in free verse. Stained glass-like cut paper illustrations. Extensive back matter.