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SIT-IN: HOW FOUR FRIENDS STOOD UP BY SITTING DOWN

Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Pinkney
Author's First Name: 
Andrea Davis
Illustrator's First Name: 
Brian
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Pinkney
Publisher: 
Little, Brown
Publication Date: 
2010

Bright watercolors punctuated with jaunty black lines and quotations from Dr. Martin Luther King depict the growth and success of the movement to end racial segregation in public places that four African-American college students in Greensboro, NC, sparked by staging the first restaurant sit-in.