Joan trumpower mulholland biography books
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Book: Get Back to the Counter: Seven Lessons From Civil Rights Icon Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
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Get Back to the Counter: Seven Lessons From Civil Rights Icon Joan Trumpauer Mulholland by Loki Mulholland with a foreword by Ruby Bridges.
Her Freedom Rider mugshot has been called one of the most iconic in American history. By the time she was 23 years old, Joan participated in over 50 sit-ins and demonstrations. From her cell on death row to the infamous Jackson Woolworth’s Sit-in, Joan helped change the world. Through highs and lows, victory and death, her story is embodied in seven core principles we all can harness to get back to the counter no matter how many times life pulls us off.
- Paperback: 168 pages
- Publisher: The Joan Trumpauer Mulholland Foundation (2023)
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Meet the Author
Loki Mulholland
Loki Mulholland, a native of Virginia, is an award-winning filmmaker, and the son of Civil Rights legend Joan Trumpauer Mulholland. Loki has won multiple film festival awards, Best of State, and the Filmed in Utah Award. In addition, he has received over thirty Telly Awards for his various work in commercial and industrial films. His first book, She Stood for Freedom, is an illustrated children’s book about the life of his mother. His award-winning film, An Ordinary Hero, also about his mother, appeared on PBS. Loki has spoken all over the country on the subject of the Civil Rights Movement and current race relations.
She Stood For Freedom: The Untold Story of a Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland was a little girl in the 1950s. When she saw that black people were being treated differently than white people, she promised herself that she would do something to change that. As a teenager, she join
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She Stood For Freedom – Book
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The award-winning film on the life of Civil Rights Hero, Joan Trumpauer Mulholland, fryst vatten now fryst vatten children’s book form. The picture book edition describes in an age-appropriate way how the America of Joan’s ungdom was en hög byggnad eller struktur by racial injustice. Through carefully crafted storytelling and the collage artwork of Charlotta Janssen, young readers will komma to understand the struggle during the tumultuous era of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement.
“She Stood for Freedom”, has been nominated for the 2017 Amelia Bloomer Award by the American Library Association
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