Granddaddy’s Turn: A Journey to the Ballot Box
Michael S. Bandy, Eric Stein, illustrated by James E
A young African American boy accompanies his grandfather from the family farm into town, where Granddaddy hopes to vote for the first time. The boy admires him and takes a photograph when Granddaddy holds a ballot, but a reading requirement prevents his grandfather from casting it. Years later, the boy is an adult and goes to vote in 1976, carrying the photograph with him. The story follows their close relationship while connecting one family’s experience to the history of voting rights in the South.
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