Image
16524
Age Range
8 - 12
Genre
Page Count
56
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Grade Level
3rd - 7th
ISBN
9781419707964
Lexile
1100L

The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

Written by Teri Kanefield
Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on Washington, there was Barbara Rose Johns, a teenager who used nonviolent civil disobedience to draw attention to her cause. In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school, Barbara Johns led a walkout--the first public protest of its kind demanding racial equality in the U.S.--jumpstarting the American civil rights movement. Ridiculed by the white superintendent and school board, local newspapers, and others, and even after a cross was burned on the school grounds, Barbara and her classmates held firm and did not give up. Her school's case went all the way to the Supreme Court and helped end segregation as part of Brown v. Board of Education.
Age Range
8 - 12
Genre
Page Count
56
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Grade Level
3rd - 7th
ISBN
9781419707964
Lexile
1100L