Memphis, Martin, and the mountaintop : the sanitation strike of 1968

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This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike -- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination -- when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest.

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