Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men

Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent MenIn this key civil rights and social justice book for young readers, Scipio Africanus Jonesa self taught attorney who was born enslavedleads a momentous series of court cases to save twelve Black men who'd been unjustly sentenced to death. In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up

while for others it's grinning from ear to ear while eating auntie’s spectacular 7Up cake

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But then light is shed on some hard truths: It isn’t that her father doesn’t want to come home—he can’t…and her whole family is in jeopardy

" masterfully brought to life by Caldecott Honor recipient and a nine-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Bryan Collier

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or locale--to grow and thrive without the daily aggravation and hardship (and expense

Louis was a staging post for Indian removal and imperial expansion

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