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All You Have to Do
Autumn Allen
Ages: 12+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Kokila/Penguin Random House
ISBN: 978-0-593-61904-9
Keywords: student protests, micro-aggressions, racism, coming-of-age, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Million Man March
Two young Black men, one at an elite prep school in 1995 and one at Columbia University in 1968, act to understand and define themselves.