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The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

By Teri Kanefield
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Abrams Imprint Abrams ISBN

9781419707964

Awards and Honors New York Public Library, 100 Titles for Reading and Sharing 2014, Nonfiction
2015 NCTE Orbis Pictus Recommended Book
2015 Jane Addams Award Winner, Older Readers
NCSS Carter G. Woodson Book Award 2016 Winner, Middle

The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

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In 1951, Barbara Rose Johns organized a strike to protest the inferior conditions of her all-black high school. The case became part of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. Author’s note. Time line. Index. Full-color and black-and-white photographs.
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