The Young Crusaders: The Untold Story of the Children and Teenagers who Galvanized the Civil Rights Movement
V.P. Franklin
Beacon Press
Some of the most iconic images of the Civil Rights Movement are those of young people engaged in social activism. Franklin's groundbreaking narrative delivers a thorough reexamination of the efforts of children and teenagers to challenge legal segregation, employment discrimination, educational inequality, and racialized violence beginning in the 1930s through to the current day Climate Strike, March for Our Lives, and #BLM.