Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

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Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

By Carole Boston Weatherford

Reading Level: Early Elementary School, Late Elementary School
Genre: Fiction
Publisher: Puffin Books 2005

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Connie, a fictional young girl, witnesses the student sit-ins at the lunchcounter in Greensboror, North Carolina. Her family is involved in NAACP voter registration, sit-ins, and picketing during the civil rights moevement.

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Keywords

Woolworth, segregation, desegregation, racism, citizenship, separate but equal, black history month, law, legal, civil rights, civil rights movement, equality, Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter, protest, sit-in, first amendment, democracy, boycott

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Newbery Medal

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Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award

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