Love Is Loud
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Love Is Loud by Sandra Neil Wallace
Four starred reviews!Meet Diane Nash, a civil rights leader who worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis, in this "poignant and powerful" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) nonfiction picture book that is "a stunning, little-known story, and a welcome volume" (School Library Journal, starred review) that "highlights major moments in Nash's life" (The Horn Book, starred review).
Diane grew up in the southside of Chicago in the 1940s. As a university student, she visited the Tennessee State Fair in 1959. Shocked to see a bathroom sign that read For Colored Women, Diane learned that segregation in the South went beyond schools--it was part of daily life. She decided to fight back, not with anger or violence, but with strong words of truth and action.
Finding a group of like-minded students, including student preacher John Lewis, Diane took command of the Nashville Movement. They sat at the lunch counters where only white people were allowed and got arrested, day after day. Leading thousands of marchers to the courthouse, Diane convinced the mayor to integrate lunch counters. Then, she took on the Freedom Rides to integrate bus travel, garnering support from Martin Luther King Jr. and then the president himself--John F. Kennedy.
Sandra Neil Wallace is a former ESPN sportscaster who has written for a variety of children's and adult periodicals. She lived next door to a family-owned and run cattle farm in eastern Pennsylvania until recently, which inspired her debut novel, Little Joe, and provided most of the technical expertise in the book. She presently lives in Keene, New Hampshire, with her husband, Rich Wallace, a fellow Knopf author.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781534451032 |
| ISBN 10 | 153445103X |
| Title | Love Is Loud |
| Author | Sandra Neil Wallace |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books |
| Year published | 2023-01-10 |
| Number of pages | 48 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |