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The Girl from the Tar Paper School

Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

The Girl from the Tar Paper School( )
Author: Kanefield, Teri
ISBN:978-1-4197-0796-4
Publication Date:Jan 2014
Publisher:Abrams, Inc.
Imprint:Abrams Books for Young Readers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $19.95
Book Description:

Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school, Barbara Johns led a walkout-the first public protest of its kind demanding racial equality in the U.S.-jumpstarting the American civil rights movement. Ridiculed by the white...
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