Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, a formerly enslaved person who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.
Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books
- ISBN: 9780786803507
- Author: Rappaport, Doreen
- Published: 2000, Jump At The Sun
- Themes: African Americans, enslavement, History, Underground railroad
- Descriptors: Biography - Autobiography- Memoir, Coretta Scott King Awrd, Picture Book, Primary (ages 6-9), United States
- No. of pages: 32