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This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality

By Jo Ann Allen Boyce, Debbie Levy
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Hardcover edition

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Imprint Bloomsbury USA ISBN

9781681198521

Awards and Honors 2019 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award Winner, Nonfiction
Kirkus Best Books - 2019
CPL Best Books - 2019
Robert L. Sibert Award Honoree - 2020

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality

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Discrimination: Racial Insensitivity/Racism,Discrimination: Reference/Discussion,Violence: Mild Violence

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.
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