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Abby Takes a Stand by Patricia McKissack · Booklabria

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Abby Takes a Stand

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First published: 2005
Language: English
Editions: 4

Synopsis

Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.

Subjects: History
Children's fiction
African Americans
Race relations
Civil rights movements
Tennessee
Set in: Tennessee
Nashville
Time: 20th Century

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