Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial InjusticeThe companion book, Something Happened in Our Park: Standing Together After Gun Violence, is coming in 2021. Preorder now. A NEW YORK TIMES AND #1 INDIEBOUND BEST SELLER#6 on American Library Association's Office of Intellectual Freedom's Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2020A Little Free Library Action Book Club SelectionNational Parenting Product Award Winner (NAPPA)Emma and Josh heard that something happened in their town. A Black man was shot by

communication and translation

But when Margaret's estranged husband

won’t ever end

Set during the pre-Civil War period

ISBN-10 : 0865439656

separated from the “normal” kids at school who don’t have any “issues

often unpredictable

That is the obvious but haunting question addressed in this remarkable historical survey which documents and analyses the chain of events that led up to the passing in 1909

what Thomas shows in his illuminating book is how this view was eventually turned upside down in decisions like Dred Scott

grassroots

created in 1969

these unforgettable essays never fail to be "painfully honest and gloriously affirming" and hold "a mirror to your soul and to that of America" (Dorothy Roberts)