A Mighty Long Way: My Journey To Justice At Little Rock Central High School (Young Readers Edition)

ISBN-10: 0593486781
ISBN-13: 9780593486788
Author: Lanier, Carlotta Walls and Lisa Frazier Page
Interest Level: 5-12
Publisher: Penguin Random House

Publication Date: January 2024

Copyright: 2023

Page Count: 304

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Interest Level

Grades 5-12

Reading Level

Lexile: 980L

BISAC Subjects

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Topics / Prejudice & Racism

JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists

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Follow the story of Carlotta Walls LaNier, who in 1957 at the age of fourteen was one of nine black students who integrated the all-white Little Rock Central High School and became known as the Little Rock Nine. At fourteen years old, Carlotta Walls was the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine. The journey to integration in a place deeply against it would not be not easy. Yet Carlotta, her family, and the other eight students and their families answered the call to be part of the desegregation order issued by the US Supreme Court in its 1954 Brown v. Board ofEducation case. As angry mobs protested, the students were escorted into Little Rock Central High School by escorts from the 101st Airborne Division, which had been called in by then-president Dwight D. Eisenhower to ensure their safety. The effort needed to get through that first year in high school was monumental, but Carlotta held strong. Ultimately, she became the first Black female ever to walk across the Central High stage and receive a diploma. The Little Rock Nine expe
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