The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed History

Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selma Teachers' March.

Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way. Noted nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace conducted the last interviews with Reverend Reese before his death in 2018 and interviewed several teachers and their family members in order to tell this story, which is especially important today.

Author: Sandra Neil Wallace, Rich Wallace
Publisher: Calkins Creek Books
Published: 09/29/2020
Pages: 48
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.16lbs
Size: 11.10h x 9.40w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781629794525
Audience: Ages 9-12

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.5
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 510218 / Teachers March! How Selma's Teachers Changed History


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 06/01/2020 pg. 62
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2020
Bulletin of Ctr for Child Bks 09/01/2020
Publishers Weekly 08/24/2020
School Library Journal 09/25/2020 pg. 1
Horn Book Magazine 03/01/2021 pg. 127

About the Author
Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace are award-winning writers of nonfiction titles including First Generation: 36 Trailblazing Immigrants and Refugees Who Make America Great and Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights, which won the International Literacy Association's Social Justice Award and a YALSA Award nomination for Excellence in Nonfiction. Sandra's picture-book biography Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery is the NCTE 2019 Orbis Pictus winner for Outstanding Nonfiction.

Charly Palmer is an award-winning graphic designer and illustrator. He also teaches design, illustration, and painting, most recently at Spelman College. His two recent picture books are There's a Dragon in My Closet and Mama Africa, which won the 2018 Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award.