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Betty Before X
by Ilyasah Shabazz
Ages: 9+
Published: 2018
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux BFYR/Macmillan
ISBN: 978-0-374-30610-6
Keywords: Coming of Age, Malcolm X, Black history
Betty Sanders, who will one day marry Malcolm X, enjoys her friends, her adoptive family, and community volunteering in 1940's Detroit, but increasingly notices the blight of racial prejudice. Author's note, timeline.