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All tagged 1960's
Amari Johnson and her family live in Boston, Massachusetts until their world turns upside and Amari’s Dad gets a new job in Raleigh, North Carolina. Amari leaves her friends and school. Now, she lives in the South where racism has become more prevalent.
Jacqueline Woodson writes beautiful, autobiographical prose in brown girl dreaming. She shares her heart and soul while offering the reader a picture of what growing up in the 1960’s as an African America girl meant to her.
The book starts with funny and sobering stories from Martin Luther King Jr.’s childhood.
