*received for free from netgalley for honest review* really great quick read, this could have been way longer, but this was a perfect introduction book to read about her!

<i>Call Me Miss Hamilton</i> is a children’s book about one of the lesser-known activists of the Civil Rights Movement, Mary Hamilton. A Freedom Rider, Miss Hamilton was arrested multiple times. In one Alabama court, the judge insisted on calling her by her first name, but she refused to answer unless she was addressed as Miss Hamilton. When the judge charged her with contempt of court, she took her battle all the way to the Supreme Court.

I had not heard of Mary Hamilton before seeing this book, and I am glad her story is getting told. The downside to listening to a picture book as an audiobook is that you miss out on the photos and illustrations included in a physical book, but the audiobook was well read by Adenrele Ojo. The audiobook also has background music to supplement the narrative. Such a courageous woman! I hope this book will make its way into elementary school classrooms while discussing the Civil Rights Movement, and that parents will read it with their children at home.

Many thanks to NetGalley for providing me an audio ARC of this book.

This was a very enjoyable audiobook! Background music throughout created a feeling of tension and suspense which underlined the importance of the topic and helped keep the listener engaged in away that a voice alone might not. While the entire audiobook is only 20 minutes, it is very informative. Not only about Mary Hamilton's actions as a Civil Rights activist, but also about the cultural environment of the 1950s and 1960s, and the lasting implications of Miss Hamilton standing her ground and refusing to be disrespected as her case was brought all the way to the Supreme Court.