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Abby Takes a Stand

by Patricia McKissack · 2005

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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.

Children's fictionAfrican americans, fictionTennessee, fictionFictionRace relationsCivil rights demonstrationsSegregationHistoryAfrican AmericansCivil rights movements, fiction