10 Things I Learned From Picture Books
Top Ten Things I Learned about the Civil Rights Movement from Picture Books:
1. People would be arrested for even just standing there in front of the registration office
2. The police force was allowed to use gas masks and nightsticks
3. Every black voter needed another registered voter to "vouch" that they were a "good Negro"
4. Even the smallest of children could be put in jail
5. Many people thought that if death was the option to being a slave, so be it.
6. Flags were put of outside of the NAACP offices when a man was lynched.
7. They would march and sing in the rain, or any kind of weather.
8. They would say, "Under arrest for truancy and others for the contempt of court
9. Many children would skip school regularly to protest
10. A sweat box was used to keep young people: a small metal cell with no windows.
"The answer is simple. Our children and our families are maimed a little every day of our lives. If we can end an incessant torture by a single climatic confrontation, then the risks are acceptable. "
1. People would be arrested for even just standing there in front of the registration office
2. The police force was allowed to use gas masks and nightsticks
3. Every black voter needed another registered voter to "vouch" that they were a "good Negro"
4. Even the smallest of children could be put in jail
5. Many people thought that if death was the option to being a slave, so be it.
6. Flags were put of outside of the NAACP offices when a man was lynched.
7. They would march and sing in the rain, or any kind of weather.
8. They would say, "Under arrest for truancy and others for the contempt of court
9. Many children would skip school regularly to protest
10. A sweat box was used to keep young people: a small metal cell with no windows.
"The answer is simple. Our children and our families are maimed a little every day of our lives. If we can end an incessant torture by a single climatic confrontation, then the risks are acceptable. "