| Author(s) | Leo Lionni |
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| Age Group | 3-7 |
| Publisher | Dragonfly Books |
| ISBN | 978-0394826202 |
| Year | 1973 |
This classic tale of cooperation follows a little black fish and his friends, a school of little red fish, who cannot escape when the big fish try to eat them until they discover that when they work together, they become the biggest fish of all.
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.
