A review by heykellyjensen
Into the Streets: A Young Person's Visual History of Protest in the United States by Marke Bieschke
Appealing and engaging, this nonfiction is easy for teens -- and adults -- to read in a sitting or through multiple short reading sessions. It looks at US protests from colonization through 2019, and it offers context to many of the protests that offer insight into what we're seeing today (quite literally).
It's about 180 pages long, so it's not going to include everything. The information is not comprehensive, and for some of the lesser-known protests, it's hard to say how much historical context is enough or too much/too little. There wasn't enough here about who can/cannot protest, though the images speak pretty loudly in a number of cases, which is about the biggest thing I felt it was lacking.
But a damn solid introduction and will certainly encourage more reading.
It's about 180 pages long, so it's not going to include everything. The information is not comprehensive, and for some of the lesser-known protests, it's hard to say how much historical context is enough or too much/too little. There wasn't enough here about who can/cannot protest, though the images speak pretty loudly in a number of cases, which is about the biggest thing I felt it was lacking.
But a damn solid introduction and will certainly encourage more reading.