With the might of angels : the diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson

Type

Book

Authors

Pinkney, Andrea Davis

ISBN 13

9780545297059

Tags

African American Girls, families, Preteen Girls, race relations, school integration, schools, Tomboys, Twelve-year-old girls

Abstract

In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.

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