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Mighty Long Way, A: My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
Carlotta Walls LaNier, with Lisa Frazier Page
Ages: 14+
Published: 2023
Publisher: Delacorte Press/Random House Children's Books/PRH
ISBN: 978-0-593-48675-7
Keywords: Little Rock Nine, Nonfiction: History, African-American student, Integration, Segregation
One of the original nine Black students to integrate an all-White school recalls her experience of having to fight hostile forces for an education. Archival photos. Source notes. Young readers edition.