Title The girl from the tar paper school : Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement / Teri Kanefield.

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New York : Abrams Books for Young Readers, 2014.

Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1587826~S1

Location	Call No.	Status
95th Street Juvenile Biography	J BIO POWELL	AVAILABLE

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Description	56 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 50-51) and index.
Contents	The tar paper shack problem -- A little child shall lead them -- The quiet embrace of the woods -- The time has come -- Stick with us -- Reaching for the moon -- Pupil lashes out at principal -- A lawsuit is filed and the troubles begin -- The lost generation -- "Nothing is as strong as gentleness, nothing as gentle as strength." -- The birth of the civil rights movement -- Author's note -- Select civil rights timeline -- Endnotes -- Sources.
Summary	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.
Audience	1100L Lexile
Note	1100L Lexile
	Accelerated Reader MG 7.6 2 159626
Study Program	Accelerated Reader MG 7.6 2 159626
Subject	Powell, Barbara Johns, 1935-1991 -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil rights movements -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Women civil rights workers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Segregation in education -- Virginia -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Civil rights workers -- Juvenile literature.
	Women civil rights workers -- Juvenile literature.
	Women -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Biography -- Juvenile literature.
	Segregation in education -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
	Virginia -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Added Title	Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement.
ISBN	9781419707964 (hc.)
	1419707965 (hc.)

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