Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down BOTY_2025 A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOK

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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood up by Sitting Down BOTY_2025 A PARADE BEST KIDS BOOKIt was February 1, 1960. They didn't need menus. Their order was simple. A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side. This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement. Andrea Davis Pinkney uses poetic, powerful prose to tell the story