The rock and the river

Type

Book

Authors

Magoon, Kekla

ISBN 13

9781416978039

Tags

African American Teenagers, African Americans, American People, Black Panther Party, brothers, civil rights movement, Fathers and Sons, Fourteen-year-old boys, Nonviolence, North American people, Police brutality, racism

Abstract

It's 1968, and Chicago teen Sam is torn. He's always looked up to his father, a civil rights leader dedicated to nonviolence. His older brother Stick, however, has left home to join the revolutionary Black Panther Party. At first Sam is skeptical of the Panthers' militant approach to ending racial injustice, but after one of his friends is brutally beaten by the police, Sam starts to question his father's nonviolent beliefs. -- Description by Rebecca Honeycutt.

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