The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

Year Published 2014

Word Count 10,153

• Text Complexity
• Lexile Level: 1100L
• ATOS Reading Level: 7.6

• AR Quiz Numbers
• 159626

• Curricular Area
• History
• Social Studies

• Subject Headings
• 20th century
• Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Historical
• Women civil rights workers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
• Civil rights workers--United States--Biography--Juvenile literature
• Virginia
• Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Women
• Segregation in education
• Women civil rights workers
• Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography | Social Activists
• Powell, Barbara Johns, 1935-1991--Juvenile literature
• Civil rights workers
• Women
• Civil rights movements
• Powell, Barbara Johns
• African Americans
• History
• Virginia--Race relations--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
• United States
• Segregation in education--Virginia--History--20th century--Juvenile literature
• Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Biography
• Race relations
• Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century--Juvenile literature

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