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

Informationen zum Autor Teri Kanefield is a lawyer and the author of The Girl from the Tar Paper School, The Extraordinary Suzy Wright, the Making of America series, and more. Her awards include the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award and the Carter G. Woodson Book Award. She lives in San Luis Obispo on the central California coast. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The Girl from the Tar Paper School tells the gripping story of sixteen-year-old Barbara Rose Johns. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school, Barbara led a walk-out--the first public protest of its kind demanding racial equality in the US--jumpstarting the American Civil Rights movement.

Product details

• Authors: Teri Kanefield
• Publisher: Abrams
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 8 to 12
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2014
• EAN: 9781419707964
• ISBN: 978-1-4197-0796-4
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; USA, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century, People & places (Children's / Teenage), United States of America, USA, c 1950 to c 1959, Interest age: from c 10 years, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Places and peoples, C 1945 To C 1960, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Places / United States