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John A. Stokes

Students on Strike

Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown, and Me

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John Stokes has waited more than 50 years to give his eyewitness account of The Manhattan Project. This was the name he and a group of fellow students gave their strike at R.R. Moton High School that helped to end separate schooling for blacks and whites, not only in his home state of Virginia, but throughout America. Told in Stokes' own words, the story vividly conveys how his passion for learning helped set in motion one of the most powerful movements in American history, resulting in the desegregation of schools-and life-in the United States. As a child tending crops on the family farm, John Stokes never dreamed that one day he would be at… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Wolfe, Lois / Viola, Herman
  • ISBN: 978-1-4263-0153-7
  • EAN: 9781426301537
  • Produktnummer: 2915821
  • Verlag: National Geographic
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
  • Seitenangabe: 128 S.
  • Sonstiges: Ab 10 J.

Über den Autor


John Stokes grew up as one of six children on a small farm in Kingsville, VA. After high school, he served two years in the U.S. Army, before graduating from Virginia State University. He worked as a teacher in the Baltimore public school system, retiring as a principal in 1994. He now lives in Lanham, MD.

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