The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement
by Kanefield, Teri
Carter G. Woodson Award/HonorJane Addams Book Award Finalist/Winner BU.S.American/U.S. HistoryBlack PeopleJunior Library Guild SelectionSenior HighMinority Rights
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AR Book Level
7.6
AR Points
2
Word Count
10,153
Interest Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Genre
Nonfiction
AR Quiz #
159626 EN
About this book
In 1951, witnessing the unfair conditions in her racially segregated high school, Barbara Johns led the first public walk-out, demanding racial equality in the U.S. and jumpstarting the American civil rights movement.
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