Karen Chilton
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon, an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...