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This Promise of Change

by Jo Ann Allen Boyce

Ages: 9+

Published: 2019

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children's Books

ISBN: 978-1-68119-852-1

Keywords: School integration, Prejudice, Race relations, Diversity

Jo Ann Allen Boyce shares her experience as one of 12 black teens integrating Tennessee's Clinton High School in 1956. Archival photographs, timeline, and bibliography.