Welcome to Litsy!

This book is an illustrated version of a short poem inspired by the African American writer's childhood visits to the Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter with his white best friends in the mid-1960s. By itself, the poem is not enough of an introduction to Civil Rights issues or to the Greensboro sit-ins of 1958, but I enjoyed the author's afterword explaining how he wrote the poem. Recommended. #NetGalley

A simplistic view of the Greensboro sit ins.

Page spread from a lovely illustrated edition of a poem celebrating the 1958 Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter sit-ins and what it was like growing up in its aftermath. #NetGalley