The girl from the tar paper school : Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
(2014)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
J/BIOGRAPHY/323/POWELL,B/KAN
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014
DESCRIPTION
56 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781419707964 (hbk.), 1419707965 (hbk.), 9781419707964, 1419707965 :
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The tar paper shack problem -- "A little child shall lead them" -- The quiet embrace of the woods -- The time has come -- Stick with us -- Reaching for the moon -- Pupil lashes out at principal -- A lawsuit is filed- and the troubles begin -- The lost generation -- "Nothing is as strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as strength." -- The birth of the civil rights movement -- Timeline
Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement
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