The girl from the tar paper school Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
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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New York :
Abrams Books for Young Readers,
2014.
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