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Bus of Our Own
Based on real events, this story celebrates the spirit of the African Americans who lived in rural Mississippi in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Though they paid taxes and many owned land, they received separate and unequal public services and educational opportunities.
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- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100333
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100196
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1107107
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/segregation_in_transportation
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Place/southern_states
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/african_americans_southern_states_juvenile_fiction
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/juvenile_nonfiction_biography_&_autobiography_women
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93010580
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119597
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/schools_fiction
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111234
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/segregation_juvenile_fiction
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/segregation_in_transportation_juvenile_fiction
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/school_buses
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85118291
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/african_americans
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/segregation_fiction
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/school_buses_fiction
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/799558
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/historical_fiction
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- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/african_americans_juvenile_fiction
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sj96006090
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/segregation
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/african_americans_fiction
- http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1244550
- http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/786360#Topic/school_buses_juvenile_fiction
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- "Although she really wants to go to school, walking the five miles is very difficult for Mable Jean and the other Black children, so she tries to find a way to get a bus for them the same as the white children have. Based on real events in Mississippi."
- "Based on real events, this story celebrates the spirit of the African Americans who lived in rural Mississippi in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Though they paid taxes and many owned land, they received separate and unequal public services and educational opportunities."@en