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In the Tense Space Between Two Worlds

…Amendment. Guided by Katherine’s drive and persistence, the family stitched themselves into Rosedale’s fabric, attending a church and enrolling all three children in the local public school: They would learn…

A Head Start on Justice

…March on Washington was for freedom and jobs. While dismantling segregation and enfranchising African Americans were central goals of the civil-rights movement, economic opportunity was also on activists’ radars. Social

They Looked Away

…Loosely based on a real incident Rivers discovered at her local library, the novel tells the tale of Placidia Hockaday, the pampered, feisty seventeen-year-old daughter of a South Carolina plantation…

Volunteer Grit

…horrible, during the war. Ralph Bowden, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina, has worked as an electrical engineer, history professor, home builder, alternative-energy consultant, and technical

Making Our Country a Little More Human

On November 16, John Lewis—along with his collaborators, co-author Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell—won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature with March: Book Three, the third installment…

Marching Tall

…week the trilogy’s final volume, March: Book Three, was published in a first printing that sold out in less than a month. For much of the fall all three books…

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