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Author Fradin, Judith Bloom.

Title The power of one : Daisy Bates and the Little Rock Nine / by Judith Bloom Fradin & Dennis Brindell Fradin.

Publication Info. New York : Clarion Books, [2004]
©2004

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 920 BATES    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Children's Department  J-B BATES    Storage
 Canton Public Library - Children's Department  J BIO BATES c.2  Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Children's Biographies  J B BATES    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department  J 323.092 BATES    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Children's Department  JB BATES    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Children's Nonfiction  J 973.0496 FRA    DUE 04-30-24
 New Britain, Main Library - Young Adult  YA 92 BATES, DAI    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Children's Department  J323 FRADIN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Children's Department  J 973.923 FRA    Check Shelf

Description xii, 178 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.
Contents ntroduction: "The bravest woman i have ever known" -- "The next will be dynamite" -- "Niggers have to wait" -- "Who killed my mother?" -- "Hate can destroy you, daisy" -- Birth of the Arkansas state press -- "Do something" -- "There must be some place in America" -- "You will refrain from calling me daisy" -- "Daisy, daisy, did you hear the news?" -- "They're in!" -- "Some victory!" -- "See you later, integrator!" -- "Follow in your footsteps" -- "We made it" -- "To rid our nation of the evils of segregation" -- Power of one -- Source notes - Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index.
Summary Born in a small town in rural Arkansas, Daisy Bates was a journalist and activist who became one of the foremost civil rights leaders in America. In 1957 she mentored the nine black students who were integrated into Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 7.9 7.0 84105.
Subject Bates, Daisy -- Juvenile literature.
African American women civil rights workers -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Civil rights workers -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century -- Juvenile literature.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.) -- Juvenile literature.
Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations -- Juvenile literature.
Bates, Daisy.
Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)
African American women -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Biography.
Civil rights workers -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- Biography.
School integration -- Arkansas -- Little Rock -- History -- 20th century.
Little Rock (Ark.) -- Race relations.
Genre/Form Juvenile materials.
Added Author Fradin, Dennis B.
ISBN 061831556X
Standard No. 9780618315567
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