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March forward, girl : from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
Publication Information
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, [2018]
Physical Description
x, 214 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Audience
950 Lexile
Summary
A member of the Little Rock Nine shares her memories of growing up in the South under Jim Crow.
Contents
- I'll figure it out later
- When fear comes home
- Black is an inconvenient color
- A head full of questions
- A church full of angels
- Rules of my survival
- Dimming the light of my dream
- Into the real world outside
- I'm not alone
- Becoming a real student
- The world is my birthday gift
- Hope that the world can be mine
- Blessed
- Santa is in town
- Television and bomb shelters
- Finding my piece of the pie
- Angel in a white sheet
- Who is Jim Crow?
- My life forges ahead
- Marching forward.
Subjects
- African American civil rights workers > Biography > Juvenile literature.
- School integration > Arkansas > Little Rock > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- African American students > Arkansas > Little Rock > History > 20th century > Juvenile literature.
- School integration > Arkansas > Little Rock > History > 20th century.
- African American students > Arkansas > Little Rock > History > 20th century.
- African Americans > Biography.
- Women > Biography.
- Little Rock (Ark.) > Race relations > Juvenile literature.
- United States > History > 1953-1961 > Juvenile literature.
- Little Rock (Ark.) > Race relations.
- United States > History > 1953-1961.
- Beals, Melba > Juvenile literature.
- Beals, Melba.