Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me ‘Round: My Story of the Making of Martin Luther King Day

Kathlyn J. Kirkwood recounts her lifelong connection to the civil rights movement in a memoir written in free verse. Drawn to activism as a child, she attended protests as a teenager and later joined years of petitions and demonstrations seeking a federal holiday for Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. Her account centers the people who worked toward that outcome. Greyscale drawings, archival photographs, and historical documents accompany the story of the holiday’s establishment.