Hunter-Gault, Charlayne, To the Mountaintop,
198 pgs. New York Times
Company 2012. $22.99, Language-PG (
n-word). Violence-PG.
This is a book of nonfiction about
the Civil Rights movement. Charlayne was part of that
movement. Charlayne was born and
lived in Georgia. She takes on the
journey from 1959 to 1965
through her perspective of this tumultuous time.
Charlayne is one of two of
the first black students to desegregate
the University of Georgia. She
needed tenacity and persistence to make it happen. She withstood so much adversity and racism during her historic ordeal. She does tell herstory
as part of the movement
from the lunch counter sit ins to
the March on the Mall, where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke and gave his “I have
a Dream” speech. From the experiences of the Freedom Riders to the
demonstrations , she takes you year by year through these social changes. I would recommend this book to
all libraries.
MS,HS- ESSENTIAL. Linda, Elementary Teacher.
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