Freedom on the Menu

Freedom on the Menu

The Greensboro Sit-Ins

by Carole Boston Weatherford, Jerome Lagarrigue (Illustrator)
Publisher: Puffin Books
Reprint, ©2007, ISBN: 9780142408940
Trade Paperback, 32 pages
Price: $6.99

Historical Setting: Greensboro, NC Sit-Ins, 1960

There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go. But when Connie sees four young men take a stand for equal rights at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change. This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region. And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause. Changes are coming to Connie’s town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else.
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