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Author:
Beals, Melba, author.
Title:
March forward, girl : from young warrior to Little Rock Nine / by Melba Pattillo Beals ; illustrated by Frank Morrison.
Publisher:
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : illustrations
Subject:
Beals, Melba.
Civil rights workers--Biography.
School integration--Little Rock (Ark.)--History.
African American students--History.
African Americans--Biography.
Women--Biography.
Electronic books.
Little Rock (Ark.)--Race relations.
United States--History--1953-1961.
Other Authors:
Morrison, Frank, 1971- illustrator.
Summary:
Beals's autobiography explores her childhood, when she began noticing the injustice of racism. Discusses the impact of her parents, who both highly valued education--her mother earning a PhD from University of Arkansas--and her grandmother who understood how to live in a white world but also how to rebel within it.
Indexed by:
Booklist, 1/1/2018
Horn Book Guide, 10/2018
Publishers Weekly Starred, 11/13/2017
School Library Connection Star, 3/2018
School Library Journal, 12/2017
ISBN:
1328919153
9781328919151
Locations:
0YSX353 -- Hampton-Dumont High School (Hampton)

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