Awards and Honors2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winner, Nonfiction <br>
<i>Kirkus</i> Best Books - 2019 <br>
CPL Best Books - 2019 <br>
<i>Robert L. Sibert</i> Award Honoree - 2020
This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality
In 1956, one year before the Little Rock Nine, Jo Ann Allen and eleven black classmates integrated a public high school in Clinton, Tennessee. Fourteen-year-old Jo Ann was thrust into the national spotlight as a spokesperson for the cause. Introduction. Epilogue with further information on the Clinton 12. Author’s note. Note on poetic forms. “Scrapbook” of black-and-white photographs. Time line. Quotation sources. Selected bibliography. Further reading.