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Quote:A Booklist Editor's Choice
A Parents' Choice Gold Award
A Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Award Honor Book

Jonathan Daniels, a white seminary student from New Hampshire, traveled to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to help with voter registration of black residents. After the voting rights marches, he remained in Alabama, in the area known as "Bloody Lowndes," an extremely dangerous area for white freedom fighters, to assist civil rights workers. Five months later, Jonathan Daniels was shot and killed while saving the life of Ruby Sales, a black teenager. Through Daniels's poignant letters, papers, photographs, and taped interviews, authors Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace explore what led Daniels to the moment of his death, the trial of his murderer, and how these events helped reshape both the legal and political climate of Lowndes County and the nation.

Category:Awards, Kids, Biography - Kids, History - Kids, Social Studies - Kids, Politics, Government & Law - Kids, African Americans - Kids Biography, United States History - Kids, African American History - Kids, African American Civil Rights Leaders - Kids Biography, African American History - Civil Rights Movement - Kids, Civil Rights & Human Rights - Kids, General & Miscellaneous Kids Biography, General & Miscellaneous United States History - Kids, 2016 Parents' Choice Award for Nonfiction