Just Like Jesse Owens

by Paula Young Shelton and Andrew Young

Book Overview

Civil rights icon, Ambassador Andrew Young and his daughter, Paula Young Shelton, deliver a powerful oral history about a special day in Andrew's childhood that changed him forever. This story of race relations in the 1930s South is illustrated by bestselling Caldecott Honor winner Gordon C. James.

As a boy, Andrew Young learned a vital lesson from his parents when a local chapter of the Nazi party instigated racial unrest in their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0545554659
• ISBN13: 9780545554657
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Orchard Books
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 11.0" x 11.0"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3