Posts by Annette Lesak

TeachNYPL: 'Little Lionhearts,' Young People in African-American Civil Rights Protests (Gr. 6-8)

by Annette Lesak
September 6, 2013

"I could not move because history had me glued to the seat. It felt like Sojourner Truth's hands were pushing down on one shoulder, and Harriet Tubman's hand pushing down on another shoulder" —Claudette Colvin (Interview on Democracy Now, March 2013)

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