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In Stillwater, Missippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.
Covers the shootings that set off passionate protests, the work of activists to bring about a more just legal system, and the tensions in US society that these events have brought to light.
Although she really wants to go to school, walking the five miles is very difficult for Mabel Jean and the other African-American children, so she tries to find a way to get a bus for them the same as the white children have. Based on real events in Mississippi.
Cassandra and her family have moved to her parents' hometown in Texas, but it doesn't feel like home to Cassandra until she experiences Juneteenth, a Texas tradition celebrating the end of slavery.
