Belle, the last mule at Gee's Bend / Calvin Alexander Ramsey and Bettye Stroud ; illustrated by John Holyfield.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780763640583
- ISBN: 0763640581
- Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
- Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
- Publisher: Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | In Gee's Bend, Alabama, Miz Pettway tells young Alex about the historic role her mule played in the struggle for civil rights led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes factual information about the community of Gee's Bend and Martin Luther King, Jr. |
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Subject: | Mules > Fiction. Civil rights movements > Fiction. King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 > Fiction. African Americans > Fiction. Alabama > History > 1951- > Fiction. |
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- 9 of 10 copies available at Bibliomation.
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- 0 current holds with 10 total copies.
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Black Rock Branch - Bridgeport | jj RAMSEY (Text) | 34000080616444 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Brookfield Library | E/Families/Ram (Text) | 34029124404327 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Burroughs-Saden Main - Bridgeport | jj RAMSEY (Text) | 34000080616451 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
C.H. Booth Library - Newtown | E RAMSEY (Text) | 34014125123738 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Derby Neck Library | JP RAM (Text) | 34046124471098 | Juvenile Fiction | Available | - |
Edith Wheeler Memorial Library - Monroe | JE RAM (Text) | 34026120033258 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Milford Public Library | RAMSEY (Text) | 34013076933244 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
New Milford Public Library | E RAMSEY (Text) | 34021122465129 | Juvenile Picture Book | Checked out | 03/23/2024 |
North Branch - Bridgeport | jj RAMSEY (Text) | 34000080616477 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Putnam Public Library | j RAMSEY (Text) | 33610126602496 | Juvenile Picture Book | Available | - |
Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend : A Civil Rights Story
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Belle, the Last Mule at Gee's Bend : A Civil Rights Story
A true story inspires the moving tale of a mule that played a key role in the civil rights movement- and a young boy who sees history anew.Sitting on a bench waiting for his mother, Alex spies a mule chomping on greens in someone's garden, and he can't help but ask about it.""Ol Belle?" says Miz Pettway next to him. "She can have all the collards she wants. She's earned it." And so begins the tale of a simple mule in Gee's Bend, Alabama, who played a singular part in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. When African-Americans in a poor community- inspired by a visit from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.- defied local authorities who were trying to stop them from registering to vote, many got around a long detour on mule-drawn wagons. Later, after Dr. King's assassination, two mules from Gee's Bend pulled the farm wagon bearing his casket through the streets of Atlanta. As Alex looks into the eyes of gentle Belle, he begins to understand a powerful time in history in a very personal way.