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Item Nr: B 120508 Title: Girl from the Tar Paper School : Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
Grade Lvl: IJ Author: Kanefield, Teri
Length: 56 Prod/Pub: Abrams Books for Young Readers
Copyright: 2014 Series:
Book Type: N Biographee: Powell, Barbara Johns, 1935-1991
Copies: 2 Loan Period: 42 days
 
  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. Nonviolent civil disobedience. Social Activists. Virginia- Race relations History 20th century. Orbis Pictus Honor Book 2015. AR 7.6 RC 10.4 Lexile 1100 IL 5-9.

  Subjects:
  791 - AFRICAN AMERICANS
  204 - BIOGRAPHY
  1180 - BIOGRAPHY--WOMEN
  306 - CIVIL RIGHTS
  401 - DISCRIMINATION
  1681 - LEXILE 1100-1199
  1840 - PRIMARY SOURCES
  911 - RACE RELATIONS/RACISM
  1174 - REFORMERS
  1004 - SOCIAL CHANGE