Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement Joy Angela
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement Joy Angela A Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled…
Specifikacia Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement Joy Angela
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement Joy Angela
A Caldecott-honor winning picture book biography of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement.Mamie Till-Mobley is the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered while visiting the South in 1955. It is a poised, moving work about a woman who refocused her unimaginable grief into action for the greater good. His death became a rallying point for the civil rights movement, but few know that it was his mother who was the catalyst for bringing his name to the forefront of history.In Choosing Brave, Angela Joy and Janelle Washington offer a testament to the power of love, the bond of motherhood, and one woman's unwavering advocacy for justice.
She turned pain Mamie fearlessly refused to allow America to turn away from what happened to her only child.