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The Horn Book | Review of Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality

This highly readable and engaging book tells the story of three six-year-old girls who were the first Black children to integrate a public school in.

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Bravely moving forward: 'Small Shoes, Great Strides' looks at three Black girls that took the first steps to end segregation in New Orleans schools

A single sentence tips off readers to a powerful story: “Three little girls in ankle socks and Sunday shoes made history just by going to school.”

The Horn Book | Vaunda Micheaux Nelson Talks with Roger

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.

Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality, by By Vaunda Micheaux Nelson.