As someone who has studied the Civil Rights Movement, I'm always excited when I find a book that highlights a component of that time in American History. Especially when it's a part of the movement that doesn't always receive as much attention as Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. And that is just what Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down does. It tells the story of the four young men who sat down at a lunch counter designated for whites only. Despite being tormented and bullied, the four young men and the hundreds who followed in their footsteps, stayed the course of a nonviolent demonstration. The result of integrated lunch counters was just one part of the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-twentieth century. Pinkney does a fabulous job of telling the story through words and pictures, including a timeline of the movement found at the end of the book.