A Booklist Editor's Choice A Parents' Choice Gold Award A Eureka! Nonfiction Children's Book Award Honor Book Jonathan Daniels, a white seminary student from New Hampshire, traveled to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to help with voter registration of black residents. After the voting rights marches, he remained in Alabama, in the area known as "Bloody Lowndes," an extremely dangerous area for white freedom fighters, to assist civil rights workers. Five months later, Jonathan Daniels was shot and killed while saving the life of Ruby Sales, a black teenager. Through Daniels's poignant letters, papers, photographs, and taped interviews, authors Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace explore what led Daniels to the moment of his death, the trial of his murderer, and how these events helped reshape both the legal and political climate of Lowndes County and the nation.
See More History & the past: general interest
See More People & places
See More Personal & social issues: racism & multiculturalism
No one has written a review for 'Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights'
Why not be the first to share your opinion?
Rich Wallace is the author of Perpetual Check; One Good Punch, an ALA-YALSA Best Book for Young Adults; and Wrestling Sturbridge, an ALA-YALSA Top Ten Best Book for Young Adults. He lives with his family in Pennsylvania.
More about Rich WallaceInvestigative journalists Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace are award-winning novelists and nonfiction authors of books like Blood Brother: Jonathan Daniels and His Sacrifice for Civil Rights and Bound by Ice: A True North Pole Survival Story . Sandra is a former news anchor and ESPN sportscaster. The daughter of
More about Sandra Neil Wallace
