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Sto caricando le informazioni... Hidden Heroines: Someday Is Now: Clara Luper and the 1958 Oklahoma City Sit-insdi Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich, Jade Johnson (Illustratore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. I really enjoyed reading this book. I liked how Clara Luper became a teacher because of the lack of structure and equality there was in her education. I also liked how the mentality involved from "someday is soon" to "someday is now" because it reminds me to seize the moment and do everything I can to accomplish what I envision in my life. Someday Is Now is a book about Clara Luper and her life and role in the Civil rights movement. It starts off when she is a little girl and everything is separate and unequal like not being able to play in the nice white person park or having a crummy school where the teacher also served as the janitor and principal too. It fast-forwards to her older and working as a teacher and she and the children she teaches put on a play that ends up being recognized by the NAACP and is invited to New York. They get to experience the integration and equality of the northern states but then return to the south after their show(s) are done. She and the students draft a plan to set in motion to lift segregation in public places by sitting in at a local diner and peacefully protesting. They sit in the diner and peacefully protest while doing school and having food and drinks thrown at them by the owner and white patrons. They kept going back day after day until finally a legislation was passed in some states, including Oklahoma, that stated establishments would serve anyone of any race in their establishment. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Presents the life of Clara Luper, an African-American teacher and local civil rights leader who taught her students about equality and led them in lunch counter sit-in demonstrations in Oklahoma City in 1958. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)323.092Social sciences Political Science Civil and political rights Civil Rights Biography And History BiographyClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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In the 1930s, young Clara Luper notices a “Whites Only” park in her Oklahoma town. Her father, who is crying, promises her that “someday will be real soon,” when segregation will no longer exclude black Americans. Rhuday-Perkovich commendably explains the concept of segregation for young readers, emphasizing that it is “separate and unequal” (printed in bold, like other key points). Grown and become a teacher, Clara stresses that “education meant participation.” Performing a play she wrote in New York City, Clara and her students experience integrated facilities and realize “in some places, someday was now.” Back in Oklahoma City, they decide to combat segregation using the four steps of nonviolence: “investigation, negotiation, education, and demonstration.” During sit-ins at a lunch counter, the young activists’ white friends and neighbors turn to enemies. Johnson uses facial expressions and stains on clothes to effectively convey stress and tension in a manner sensitive to readers unfamiliar with the violence of the civil rights movement. Johnson’s ability to depict great emotion through something as simple as a teardrop is laudable, as is the intentional portrayal of the spectrum of shades found among black people.
Not only does this book highlight an important civil rights activist, it can serve as an introduction to child activism as well as the movement itself. Valuable. (author’s notes, glossary) (Picture book/biography. 5-9)
-Kirkus Review