Fictionalized picture book story of the day that Agnes Sadler became the first African American woman to vote for the first time in Knoxville.
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The Big Day
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Nightjohn
12 yo African American girl is taught to read by Nightjohn, an escaped slave who knows the value of education.
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True North
14 yo white Bostonian girl helps an African American runaway slave girl, told in alternating points of view.
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Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
13 yo son of town’s new minister befriends an African American girl who lives outside town on an island inhabited by former slaves.
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Sugar
10 yo African American girl, former slave, still works on plantation, alongside newly arrived Chinese Americans. Illustrates difficult life for African Americans after Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation.
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