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The Double V Campaign: African Americans Fighting for Freedom at Home and Abroad (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781538184653)
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xThis book tells the rousing story of the Double V campaign, started during World War II to encourage Black Americans to fight two wars for democracy at once: one overseas and the other at home. It reveals to young adults how the campaign gave voice to Black communities and helped spawn the civil rights movement of the following decades.
Author: Lea Lyon
ISBN-10: 1538184656
ISBN-13: 9781538184653
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 02/20/2024
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d
By Lea Lyon
xLea Lyon is an award-winning author and illustrator and a former Illustrator Coordinator for the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) San Francisco chapter. Her most recent books include It Rained Warm Bread--a middle grade novellaby Hope Anita Smith with Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet and developed and illustrated by Lyon, which garnered a starred review from Kirkus, a 2019 Best Nonfiction Book in Verse for Young Readers from Kirkus, and an ALA Notable book for 2020--and Ready to Fly: How Sylvia Townsend Became the Bookmobile Ballerina by Lyon and A. LaFaye which was picked up by Scholastic Book Club, a 2021 Bank Street Best Children's Book, and included in the Independent Bookstore Kids Next list. Learn more at www.lealyon.com.
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