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Labbo, Linda D. – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 1997
Reviews five recent children and young adult books recounting the experiences of African American women. The books cover, respectively, the lives of Olympians, musicians, crusader Marion Wright Edelman (one of the first black teenagers to integrate Little Rock High School), and a Pony Express trail driver. (MJP)
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Black Achievement, Black Culture, Black History