Goin' someplace special
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In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.
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Patricia C. McKissack describes what it was like for her as a young black girl to travel around the city of Nashville during the 1950s in which Jim Crow laws mandated separate schools and bathrooms and restaurants and even benches for black people. Happily, young ‘Tricia Ann is on her way to “someplace special,” a place where these laws are not in place—the public library.
