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PICTURES AT THE PROTEST IBD

MYBOYS3 PRESS
12 / 2020
9781947881242
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Sinopsis

In 1959, the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools closed. For five years.áBack then, it wasnâÇÖt over a health pandemic, but because county leaders refused to desegregate white and Black schools. So when long-hidden photographs surface from the student protests along Main Street in Farmville, Sam, Derek, and Caitlin are on the case to help identify the brave teenagers who stood for justice nearly sixty years ago.Their search winds through VirginiaâÇÖs checkered racial past of Jim Crow and Massive Resistance, sending them to key sites like the Moton Museum, Evergreen Cemetery, Jackson Ward, and the Virginia State Capitol, and courageous voices like Barbara Johns, Oliver Hill, and Maggie Walker.áBut when protests over Confederate monuments and cries for social justice ignite their city, will the kids use their lessons from history to take a stand in the present? How far they will go to support new friends while confronting faces from the past?ááPictures at the Protestáis the ninth book ináThe Virginia Mysteriesáseries. The books make perfect complements to social studies units, field trips, and family vacations.áIf you enjoy mystery and adventure like the Hardy Boys, Nancy Drew, Magic Tree House, or National Treasure, youâÇÖll love author Steven K. SmithâÇÖs exciting middle-grade series-modern-day fictional mysteries with twists of real locations and events from Virginia history for ages 7-12.á

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