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Young adult & middle grade fiction about segregation, integration, & Jim Crow laws in United States history.
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The Means That Make Us Strangers
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Christine Kindberg (Goodreads Author)
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Glory Be
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Augusta Scattergood (Goodreads Author)
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Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Logans, #4)
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The Lions of Little Rock
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Kristin Levine (Goodreads Author)
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Stella by Starlight
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Sharon M. Draper (Goodreads Author)
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Yankee Girl
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Mary Ann Rodman (Goodreads Author)
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With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954
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The Perfect Place
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Teresa E. Harris (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 378 ratings
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March: Book One (March, #1)
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Jump Into the Sky
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Shelley Pearsall (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 681 ratings
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The Colored Car (Great Lakes Books)
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Jean Alicia Elster (Goodreads Author)
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Caleb's Wars
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Sources of Light
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The Starplace
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Night on Fire
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Ronald Kidd (Goodreads Author)
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The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948
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Yard War
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The Wonder of Charlie Anne
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Kimberly Newton Fusco (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 659 ratings
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Jericho Walls
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A Thousand Never Evers
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True Fires: A Novel
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Susan Carol McCarthy (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Fire from the Rock
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Sharon M. Draper (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,805 ratings
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Not Separate, Not Equal
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A Yellow Watermelon
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Bone by Bone by Bone
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Maniac Magee
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Lunch-Box Dream
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This Generation of Americans: A Story of the Civil Rights Movement
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Midnight Without a Moon (Rose Lee Carter #1)
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How To Talk To Black People
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Black Angels
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Rita Murphy (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 77 ratings
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They Come in All Colors
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Malcolm Hansen (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 335 ratings
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The Steep & Thorny Way
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Cat Winters (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,606 ratings
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Susan Marcus Bends the Rules
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3.36 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Trouble the Water
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Frances O'Roark Dowell (Goodreads Author)
3.81 avg rating — 204 ratings
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Doris Free: A Harvest of Friends
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Cara Brookins (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Lies We Tell Ourselves
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Robin Talley (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 14,354 ratings
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Buckaroo
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The Red Rose Box
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Ludie's Song
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Invasion
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Goodbye. Hello... (Ernestine & Amanda, #5)
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Sandra Belton (Goodreads Author)
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Melvin the Mighty Takes the Stage
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Call Me by My Name
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On Beale Street
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Ronald Kidd (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 57 ratings
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The Last Buffalo Soldier
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Michael S. Nuckols (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Other Side of Freedom
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Cynthia T. Toney (Goodreads Author)
4.52 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Girl on the Outside
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Because We Are
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Summer Secrets
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Patricia Hermes (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Other Side of the Fence
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Ruby Lee and Me
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Shannon Hitchcock (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 940 ratings
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Stronger Than Hate
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A Trumpet Sounds: A Novel Based on the Life of Roland Hayes
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I Be Somebody
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Easy Does It
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The White Doe
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Enoch
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A Smiling Face
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The Fog Machine
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Susan Follett (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Listening for Leroy
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The Best Bad Luck I Ever Had
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Kristin Levine (Goodreads Author)
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Seeing Red
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If We Must Die: A Novel of Tulsa's 1921 Greenwood Riot (Chaparral Books)
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20th-century, african-american, african-americans, american-history, black, black-history, children, civil-rights, desegregation, discrimination, fiction, historical, historical-fiction, history, integration, jim-crow, mg, middle-grade, prejudice, race, racism, segregation, teen, united-states, us-history, usa-history, ya, young-adult
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