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Explore a little-known story of the civil rights movement, in which black and white citizens in one Alabama city worked together nonviolently to end segregation.Mention the civil rights era in Alabama, and most people recall images of terrible violence. But something different was happening in Huntsville. For the citizens of that city, creativity, courage, and cooperation were the keys to working together to integrate their city and schools in peace. In an engaging celebration of this lesser-known chapter in American and African-American history, author Hester Bass and illustrator E. B. Lewis show children how racial discrimination, bullying, and unfairness can be faced successfully with perseverance and ingenuity.
About the Author
Hester Bass grew up in a small town near Atlanta. She's been a singer in a Boston rock band, an actress/singing telegram messenger in Manhattan, and was on "The $50,000 Pyramid" with Dick Clark and "Millionaire" with Meredith Vieira. Hester's love for the work of artist Walter Anderson, and her years in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, led to THE SECRET WORLD OF WALTER ANDERSON, winner of the NCTE ORBIS PICTUS AWARD. Hester's most recent book SEEDS OF FREEDOM: THE PEACEFUL INTEGRATION OF HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA received two starred reviews, is a Junior Library Guild selection, and was reviewed in the Los Angeles Times. Hester offers energetic, informative, and inspiring presentations and loves to travel from her home in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Learn more at: www.hesterbass.com
