TROUBLED WATERS: A RIVER’S JOURNEY TOWARD JUSTICE written by Carole Boston Weatherford and illustrated by Bryan Collier

Carole Boston Weatherford, well-known for lyrical renditions of historical personages, writes the biography of the Alabama River in TROUBLED WATERS: A RIVER’S JOURNEY TOWARD JUSTICE. Elegant, poignant illustrations by Bryan Collier mark time for a river that is “older than the fossils that rest here; older than the pots that Native Americans molded with clay from my beds.” Author and illustrator document powerful historical events–The Trail of Tears, Black Belt of slavery, the 1965 demonstrations across the Pettus bridge, and President Johnson’s Voting Rights Act. The book concludes with a fitting statement: “Some say water is the mightiest force on earth. But the yearning for freedom is even stronger.” Find a link to the book in the purchase button below.