Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men Cover:Hardcover Erica Armstrong Dunbar

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

His older brother

how kids in gangs stopped fighting in order to breakdance

Using her trademark wit alongside pop-culture references galore

the Coretta Scott King Author Award

Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men Cover:Hardcover Erica Armstrong DunbarIn this key civil rights and social justice book for young readers, Scipio Africanus Jonesa self taught attorney who was born enslavedleads a momentous series of court cases to save twelve Black men who'd been unjustly sentenced to death. In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up