White Socks Only (Albert Whitman Prairie Paperback) - Softcover

Coleman, Evelyn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080758956X ISBN 13: 9780807589564

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company, 1996

Synopsis

In the segregated south, a young girl thinks that she can drink from a fountain marked "Whites Only" because she is wearing her white socks.

About this title

About the Author:

Coleman is an Albert Whitman author.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 2-4?In this story, a grandmother relates an incident from her childhood to her granddaughter. On a scorching hot Mississippi day, a little girl walks into town by herself to learn whether it really is possible to fry an egg on the sidewalk. Mission accomplished, she is on her way home when she stops for a drink of water. Interpreting the "whites only" sign on the water fountain to refer to socks, the African American child takes off her patent-leather shoes and has just begun to drink when an angry white man grabs her and pushes her to the ground. He threatens to "whup" her, but the black townspeople come to the girl's aid by taking off their shoes and drinking from the same fountain. The angry bigot then receives punishment at the hands of a local conjure man. Atmospheric paintings, smudged and moody, will draw readers into this gripping tale. However, the story has some unsettling elements. The protagonist is old enough to go into town alone, yet she is oblivious to the meaning of the "whites only" sign. Her certainty that the sign refers to white socks is also curious; knowing that is what it means implies some prior knowledge, but she clearly does not have the facts straight.?Anna DeWind, Milwaukee Public Library
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About this edition

• Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 080758956X
• ISBN 13: 9780807589564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Geter Tyrone