Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality friendsjournal.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from friendsjournal.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Writer and librarian Vaunda Micheaux Nelson has made something of a specialty of bringing hitherto under-recognized African American heroes into prominence. In Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality, Nelson and illustrator Alex Bostic celebrate three very young heroes first graders in the fight to desegregate a New Orleans public school in 1960.