ISBN-13: 9781536215540
ACorettaScottKingAuthorHonorBook"This moving picture book portrays a girl who met injustice with dignity and excelled."Booklist (starred review)From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting portrait of determination against discrimination the story of young spelling champion MacNolia Cox.MacNolia Cox was no ordinary kid.Her idea of fun was reading the dictionary. In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, where she and a girl from New Jersey were the first African Americans invited since its founding. She left her home state a celebrityright up there with Ohios own Joe Louis and Jesse Owenswith a military band and a crowd of thousands to see her off at the station. But celebration turned to chill when the train crossed the state line into Maryland, where segregation was the law of the land. Prejudice and discrimination ruledon the train, in the hotel, and, sadly, at the spelling bee itself. With a brief epilogue recounting MacNolias further history, How Do You Spell Unfair? is the story of her groundbreaking achievement magnificently told by award-winning creators and frequent picture-book collaborators Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison.
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ISBN-13: 9781536215540
ACorettaScottKingAuthorHonorBook"This moving picture book portrays a girl who met injustice with dignity and excelled."Booklist (starred review)From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting portrait of determination against discrimination the story of young spelling champion MacNolia Cox.MacNolia Cox was no ordinary kid.Her idea of fun was reading the dictionary. In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, where she and a girl from New Jersey were the first African Americans invited since its founding. She left her home state a celebrityright up there with Ohios own Joe Louis and Jesse Owenswith a military band and a crowd of thousands to see her off at the station. But celebration turned to chill when the train crossed the state line into Maryland, where segregation was the law of the land. Prejudice and discrimination ruledon the train, in the hotel, and, sadly, at the spelling bee itself. With a brief epilogue recounting MacNolias further history, How Do You Spell Unfair? is the story of her groundbreaking achievement magnificently told by award-winning creators and frequent picture-book collaborators Carole Boston Weatherford and Frank Morrison.
tags:
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Book Online
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee PDF Kindle
How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Full Download
EPUB Book How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
Free Reading How Do You Spell Unfair?: MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee
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