How Diane Nash Led the Civil Rights Movement
From the Orbis Pictus Award-winning creators of BETWEEN THE LINES comes the first picture book biography of Diane Nash. An unsung civil rights leader of the Nashville sit-ins, the Freedom Rides, and voting rights campaigns that led to the passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Diane’s actions changed laws so that everyone could eat at Nashville lunch counters and travel across America on integrated buses.
More InfoThe Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men
Scipio Africanus Jones -- a self-taught attorney who was born enslaved -- leads a momentous series of court cases to save twelve Black men unjustly sentenced to death in 1919. Through in-depth research and consultation with legal experts, award-winning nonfiction authors Sandra Neil Wallace and Rich Wallace examine an historic US Supreme court case led by an unsung African American early civil rights hero in this CARTER G. WOODSON AWARD winning book.
More InfoThe Story of Marjory Stoneman Douglas
She was a suffragist not a scientist, a journalist not an environmentalist, but when the Everglades was being destroyed, Marjory Stoneman Douglas convinced the world to save it. In this empowering biography, author Sandra Neil Wallace reveals how Marjory stood up to sexism, ageism, developers, and politicians, to help make the Everglades a national park, defending the precious ecosystem until age 108 and showing how one person can make a difference.
More InfoSANDRA NEIL WALLACE IS AN AUTHOR AND ADVOCATE for change. Known for her investigative journalism and original narrative style, her books for young readers focus on people who break barriers and change the world. As the daughter of a refugee and concentration camp survivor, Sandra became a changemaker herself. The first generation in her family to attend university, she became a journalist, anchoring the network news before shattering the glass ceiling in sports television as the first woman to host an NHL broadcast on national TV. She is among the first journalists to report on the WNBA. Sandra's books have won national awards including NCTE's Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction, the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Book Award, SCBWI's Golden Kite Honor Award, and ILA's Social Justice Literature Award, and been chosen as Outstanding Science Books and Best Books by the American Library Association, Kirkus, Booklist, and the New York and Chicago Public Libraries.
Sandra became a U.S. citizen in 2016 and advocates for social responsibility in her community as co-founder of The Koenig Siddall First Generation Scholarship Fund, and The Daily Good, an all-volunteer non-profit bringing 25 thousand culturally diverse foods to college students each year, through its Global Foods Pantries at New Hampshire colleges. She is the recipient of the Outstanding Women of New Hampshire Award for peace & nonviolence and the Keene Sentinel’s Extraordinary Women Award, and New Hampshire’s Granite State Award for outstanding contributions to the welfare of the state. Sandra lives in southern New Hampshire with her husband and frequent collaborator, author Rich Wallace.
Since breaking a gender barrier in sports as the first woman to anchor an NHL broadcast on national TV, Sandra Neil Wallace has been writing stories about people who break barriers and change the world. She is the author of the Orbis Pictus Award-winning book Between the Lines: How Ernie Barnes Went from the Football Field to the Art Gallery, illustrated by Bryan Collier, which earned 4 starred reviews and co-author of the Orbis Pictus Honor Winner The Teachers March!, and the Carter G. Woodson awarding-winning book, Race Against Time. Her young adult nonfiction title, Blood Brother, won The International Literacy Association's Social Justice Award and was a YALSA Award Nominee for Excellence in Nonfiction. The daughter of a Yugoslavian refugee, Sandra lives in New Hampshire where she continues to break barriers and create change as co-founder of The Daily Good.
Since 2010, SANDRA NEIL WALLACE has inspired thousands of young students and burgeoning writers as a guest author and writing workshop leader. She's been a presenter for the literacy non-profit CLiF (Children's Literacy Foundation), and builds literacy initiatives as co-founder of THE DAILY GOOD's Summer Feed and Read Aloud program. To best support educators in the classroom, Sandra continues to create her popular, pre-recorded Book Talks and Read Alouds centered around the hidden heroes in the nonfiction picture books she co-creates.
