Joan trumpower mulholland biography books
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Book: Get Back to the Counter: Seven Lessons From Civil Rights Icon Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
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Get Back to the Counter: Seven Lessons From Civil Rights Icon Joan Trumpauer Mulholland by Loki Mulholland with a foreword by Ruby Bridges.
Her Freedom Rider mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. By the time she was 23 years old, Joan participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations. From her cell on death row to the infamous Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, Joan helped change the world. Through highs and lows, victory and death, her story is embodied in seven core principles we all can harness to get back to the counter no matter how many times life pulls us off.
- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation (2023)
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She Stood For Freedom – Book
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The award-winning film on the life of Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, is now is children’s book form. The picture book edition describes in an age-appropriate way how the America of Joan’s youth was torn by racial injustice. Through carefully crafted storytelling and the collage artwork of Charlotta Janssen, young readers will come to understand the struggle during the tumultuous era of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
“She Stood for Freedom”, has been nominated for the 2017 Amelia Bloomer Award by the American Library Association
See what people are saying about this book:
“Janssen’s evocative mixed-media collages tap into the turbulence of the events discussed; aqua, rust, and drab greens provide the only color, melding with photographs, drawings, maps, newspaper headlines, diary entries, and official documents. The clear, direct narrative contextualizes Joan’s actions within the larger movement while explaining words like segregation for young audiences. A brief civil rights timeline is included, and a middle grade edition of the book (with the same title) is available simultaneously.”
-Publishers Weekly
“Mulholland’s courage and determination are stressed and explained in terms that young readers can understan
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Book: She Explicit for Announcement (readers 8-17 years)
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