Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins is a multicultural book by Carole Boston Weatherford. This book described the life of eight-year-old Connie who’s brother and sister join the NAACP and partake in sit-ins and picketing.

The book describes from a young child’s perspective, the sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Alabama. The book also tells how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. comes down to make a speech for the civil rights movement.

This book was well-written and be a great way to discuss the lives of African-Americans during the 1960s. The age range on this is probably second to third grade.