Book
1 of 2 Copies Available
- ALMA POWELL: Children's Collection
Betty before X
Call Number
- J SHAB (CEN)
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, [2018]
Physical Description
248 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary
Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
Subjects
- Families > Michigan > Detroit > Juvenile fiction.
- African Americans > Juvenile fiction.
- Civil rights movements > Juvenile fiction.
- Racism > Juvenile fiction.
- Stepfamilies > Juvenile fiction.
- Family life > Michigan > Detroit > Fiction.
- Civil rights movements > Fiction.
- Racism > Fiction.
- African Americans > Fiction.
- Stepfamilies > Fiction.
- Detroit (Mich.) > History > 20th century > Fiction.
- Shabazz, Betty > Childhood and youth > Juvenile fiction.
- Shabazz, Betty, > Fiction.