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Sit-in: How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down

Cover of Sit-in: How Four Friends S
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
illustrated by Brian Pinkney
2010

This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement