Renowned educator Christine King Farris, older sister of the late Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr., joins with celebrated illustrator Chris
Soentpiet to tell this "outstanding" (School Library Journal) and
inspirational story of how one boyhood experience inspired a movement
that would change the world as we know it.
Mother Dear, one day I'm going to turn this world upside down.
Long before he became a world-famous dreamer, Martin Luther King Jr. was
a little boy who played jokes and practiced the piano and made friends
without considering race. But growing up in the segregated south of the
1930s taught young Martin a bitter lesson--little white children and
little black children were not to play with one another. Martin decided
then and there that something had to be done. And so he began the
journey that would change the course of American history.