A moving look at a Black family’s journey to exercise their right to vote and imagine a better future.Charlie and Ralph’s mom has waited a long time to vote because countless obstacles have been put in Black people’s way to stop them from having a say in elections—obstacles that it took a lot of hard work to tear down. But now, in 1969, Madear will vote for the very first time, and the boys are coming along on this exciting day. A day that puts a new bounce in their mom’s step, enabling them all to dream of a better future. Wade Hudson and Don Tate give young readers a warm family story and a powerful glimpse into the struggle waged to achieve a fundamental right of citizenship.
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•School Library Journal
“Hudson and Tate combine their formidable talents to bring to young readers the historical context of the hard-won rights of Black people to vote.”
