The Little Rock Nine Stand Up for Their Rights (History Speaks: Picture Books Plus Reader's Theater) - Softcover

Lucas, Eileen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761371184 ISBN 13: 9780761371182

Publisher: Lernerclassroom, 2011

Synopsis

Until 1957, two worlds existed in Little Rock, Arkansas: one for white Americans and another for African Americans. Whites and blacks went to separate schools, ate at separate restaurants, and even used separate drinking fountains. That year, the U.S. Supreme Court decided to end the laws that kept people apart. Nine black students agreed to attend Little Rock's all-white Central High School. But could they face angry mobs, threats, and violence? Would they have the courage to stay at Central High? In the back of this book, you'll find a script and instructions for putting on a reader's theater performance of this adventure.

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About the Author

Eileen (O'Donnell) Lucas grew up in Chicago, spent a semester in college in Ireland, and graduated from Western Illinois University. She lived near Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, for over 20 years, where her sons Travis and Brendan were born. She worked as a freelance writer and an elementary and middle school teacher during these years. She now lives in Florida, where she loves to go to the beach and listen to Jimmy Buffett music. She also loves to visit her trailer in the woods in central Wisconsin, where she takes care of her garden and hikes in the pines. Besides nonfiction children's books, she writes for an educational software publishing company in Wisconsin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Lernerclassroom
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761371184
• ISBN 13: 9780761371182
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Gustavson Adam
• Number of pages: 48