| Author(s) | Hans Peter Richter |
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| Age Group | 8-12 |
| Publisher | Puffin |
| ISBN | 978-0140322057 |
| Year | 1987 |
Han’s best friend, Friedrich, always seemed to be the more fortunate one but that changed once Hitler came to power. Friedrich gets expelled from school and becomes an orphan after the Nazi’s kill his mother and send his father to a concentration camp. This is a terrifying story of the destruction of a single Jewish family.
Bayard Rustin was a "troublemaker." He spent his life disrupting racism and prejudice with nonviolent direct action. He organized protests against war, nuclear weapons, racial segregation and discrimination. He was a friend and mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and he was unapologetically gay and Black. When Bayard and his mentor, A. Philip Randolph, set out to organize the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Bayard was targeted by those who wished to see the movement fail. But Bayard Rustin would not be stopped. With the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, Bayard organized the largest protest in civil rights history.
