Seeds of Freedom
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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.
This book explores a little-known story of the Civil Rights movement, when black and white citizens in one Alabama city worked together nonviolently to end segregation.
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There was terrible violence in many cities as integration began to take place in schools, at lunch counters, in public swimming pools, in movie theaters. But not in Huntsville, Alabama.
I was happy to read this story of the way citizens took action peacefully to spark change in this city in Alabama. Huntsville, Alabama was a city of many firsts in change toward social justice.
