Your Bridge to History: A Black Votes Matter "Face to Face with Black History Tour" Children's Book by Portia Love and Preston Love Jr., illustrated by Regina Jeanpierre, Preston Publishing, www.BlackVotesMatterUSA.com, 2019.
These is a short book about a tour taken by youth to the south, where they can experience first hand the history of Black America. It starts in Memphis where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered and where he gave his last speech. Then to the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham which was bombed and several young women killed who were there with the parents working for Civil Rights. In Birmingham was a struggle for voting rights and the Selma (Edmund Pettus) Bridge march, which took place three times. Finally in 1965 the Voting Fights Act was passed.
In Montgomery they were taught about Rosa Parks and the bus boycott. The boycott lead to harship but eventually the bus company had to give in. Also in Montgomery is a muserum that documents lynchings.
In Atlanta is the King Center where Martin Luther King Jr. is buried. There is a depiction of his life.
