Call Me Miss Hamilton by Carole Boston Weatherford

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Call Me Miss Hamilton

One Woman's Case for Equality and Respect

by Carole Boston Weatherford

Narrator Adenrele Ojo

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Length 19 minutes

Language English

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Mary Hamilton grew up knowing right from wrong. She was proud to be Black, and when the chance came along to join the Civil Rights Movement and become a Freedom Rider, she was eager to fight for what she believed in. She was arrested again and again?and she did not back down when faced with insults or disrespect. In an Alabama court, a white prosecutor called her by her first name, but she refused to answer unless he called her “Miss Hamilton.” The judge charged her with contempt of court, but that wasn’t the end of it. Miss Mary Hamilton fought the contempt charge all the way to the Supreme Court. This powerful story honors an unsung heroine who took a stand for respect?and won.

Children's Politics & Economy Nonfiction

Carole Boston Weatherford is a New York Times bestselling author and poet as well as the winner of the 2019 Washington Post Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award. The recipient of numerous awards including the Coretta Scott King Award and the Caldecott Honor, she currently resides in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Adenrele Ojo is an experienced audiobook narrator and actor. A self-described theater brat, she spent many late nights as a young child falling asleep on theatre chairs as her dad directed and her mother performed. Born in Brooklyn and raised in Philadelphia, she received her bachelor of arts in theater from Hunter College in New York.