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Author:

McKissack, Pat, 1944-2017.

Title:

Abby takes a stand / by Patricia C. McKissack ; illustrated by Gordon C. James.

Publisher:

Puffin Books,

Copyright Date:

2006, ©2005

Description:

104 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

Subject:

Segregation--Nashville--Nashville--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations--Nashville--Nashville--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
African Americans--Nashville--Nashville--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Nashville (Tenn.)--Race relations--Juvenile fiction.
Tennessee--History--20th century--Juvenile fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations--Fiction.
African Americans--Fiction.
Nashville (Tenn.)--Race relations--Fiction.
Tennessee--History--20th century--Fiction.
JUVENILE FICTION--20th Century.--United States--20th Century.
JUVENILE FICTION--African American.--United States--African American.
JUVENILE FICTION--Prejudice & Racism.--Prejudice & Racism.
African Americans.
Civil rights demonstrations.
Race relations.
Segregation.
Tennessee.
Tennessee--Nashville.
African Americans--Fiction.
Civil rights demonstrations--Fiction.
Segregation--Fiction.
1900-1999
Fiction.
History.
Juvenile works.
Historical fiction.

Other Authors:

James, Gordon C., illustrator.

Notes:

Originally published: Viking, 2005.

Summary:

Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.

Series:

Scraps of time, 1960

ISBN:

1417769564
9781417769568
9781428707160
1428707166
9780142406878
0142406872

OCLC:

(OCoLC)77581568

Locations:

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)