Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
Teri Kanefield: The girl from the tar paper school (2013)
56 pages
English language
Published Feb. 11, 2013
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.
A well written youth book about Barbara Rose Johns and the student strike she led for equal schools. Eventually her school was one of the cases that was part of Brown vs Board of Education
