Blue Jenkins: Working for Workers

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When William "Blue" Jenkins was only six months old, he moved with his parents from a Mississippi sharecropper's farm to the industrial city of Racine, Wisconsin with dreams of a new life. As an African-American in the pre-civil rights era, Blue came face to face with racism: the Ku Klux Klan hung a black figure in effigy from a tree in the Jenkins family's yard. Growing up, Blue knew where blacks could shop, eat, and get a job in Racine--and where...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0870204270

ISBN13:9780870204272

Release Date:October 2011

Publisher:Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Length:160 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.4" x 7.0" x 8.9"

Age Range:7 to 12 years

Grade Range:Grades 2 to 7

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Biographies Children's Children's Books Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Multicultural Social Activists State & Local

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