Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters
by Andrea Davis Pinkney, Stephen Alcorn
Category: Juvenile Nonfiction

Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South through the Underground Railroad. Shirley Chisolm became the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. The lives of these women led are part of an incredible story about courage in the face of oppression: about the challenges and triumphs of the battle for civil rights; and about speaking out for what you believe in -- even when it feels like no one is listening. Andrea Pinkney's moving text and Stephen Alcorn's glorious portraits celebrate the lives of ten bold women who lit the path of freedom for generations.