This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality Young Adult Fiction Fantasy - Contemporary African American & Black Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism It begins in New York

It begins in New York

Fievre passes on the tips and guidance that have helped her educate her Black students

all the kids are excited

Oscar Micheaux

Trotter doesn’t only narrate a riveting and moving portrait of the artist as a young man

This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality Young Adult Fiction Fantasy - Contemporary African American & Black Social Themes - Prejudice & Racism It begins in New YorkRecipient of a Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Honor Winner of the 2019 Boston Globe Horn Book Award for Nonfiction 2020 National Council for the Social Studies Carter G. Woodson Honor Recipient A NYPL Top Ten of 2019 A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African American students who broke the color