Author Study Books--Sit In-How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down

Sit-In

How Four Friends Stood Up By Sitting Down

Andrea Davis Pinkney
2010

Andrea Davis Pinkney captures the story of the Greensboro Four and how they stood up by sitting down on that faithful day, February 1, 1960.  It outlines the story of that day from the point of view of how the four peacefully took a stand and started a revolution. 

Andrea Davis Pinkney captured the moment of that day, along with her husband as the illustrator of the book.  The book gave my students another source to reveal the account of what happened on February 1, 1960.  Written the year of the 50th anniversary to commemorate the event, I couldn't help but imagine the fear in the those 4 as they decided to this.  Little did they know that they would begin a movement to accomplish their dream of all dreams.