This promise of change: one girl's story in the fight for school equality
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Publication Date:
2019
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When fourteen-year-old Jo Ann Allen and eleven other African American students walk into Clinton High School on an August morning in 1956, they know they are walking into history: they've been told they are the very first students to integrate a public high school in the American South. What they don't know is how treacherous their journey will be. Their eastern Tennessee town is a courteous, yes-ma'am, no-sir kind of place, where blacks and whites seem to get along. But something darker lurks beneath the civility in Clinton, and when outside agitators interfere, local whites' muffled objections turn to unrestrained bigotry and violence. Soon, even the Clinton 12 themseves wonder whether they should just return to their old school. As the desegregation crisis makes headlines across the country, Jo Ann - clear-eyed, practical, tolerant, and popular - finds herself in the spotlight as a spokesperson for the group. But that's not the only life she wants: she also wants to focus on music, friendships, and, of course, her education. This is the heartbreaking and relatable story of an extraordinary trailblazer fighting for civil rights - and for the right to be an ordinary teenager. --
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African American students
African American students -- Tennessee -- Clinton -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
African American teenage girls
African American teenage girls -- Tennessee -- Clinton -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Autobiographies
Biographies
Biography & Autobiography
Boyce, Jo Ann Allen
Boyce, Jo Ann Allen -- Juvenile literature
Clinton (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature
Didactic poetry
History
Juvenile literature
Juvenile Nonfiction
Juvenile works
Narrative poetry
Race relations
School integration
School integration -- Tennessee -- Clinton -- Juvenile literature
Segregation
Segregation -- Tennessee -- Clinton -- Juvenile literature
Sociology
Tennessee -- Clinton
Young Adult
African American students
African American students -- Tennessee -- Clinton -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
African American teenage girls
African American teenage girls -- Tennessee -- Clinton -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
Autobiographies
Biographies
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Boyce, Jo Ann Allen
Boyce, Jo Ann Allen -- Juvenile literature
Clinton (Tenn.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature
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History
Juvenile literature
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Juvenile works
Narrative poetry
Race relations
School integration
School integration -- Tennessee -- Clinton -- Juvenile literature
Segregation
Segregation -- Tennessee -- Clinton -- Juvenile literature
Sociology
Tennessee -- Clinton
Young Adult
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This promise of change : one girl's story in the fight for school equality
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