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Because Claudette

Tracey Baptiste, illustrated by Tonya Engel

Because Claudette traces a chain of events begun when a student who had been learning about Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth refused to surrender her seat to a white woman. Her arrest came before Rosa Parks’s sit-in nine months later and the organization of the Montgomery movement. The account links classroom learning about abolitionists to resistance against racial segregation and its wider consequences.

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Themes
History · Racism And Prejudice · Social Justice
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Published
February 1, 2022
ISBN-13
9780593326404
Language
English
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