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Johnson, Angela.
A SWEET SMELL OF ROSES
New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2005
IL K-3, RL 3.4
ISBN 0689832524
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There is a sweet smell of roses in the air as the girls sneak out of their house in the early morning.  They are on their way to join the march.  They listen to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. tell of freedom and equality and then they march.  They march with all the others.  They hear the jeers along the way but still they march.  They march for freedom.
SUBJECTS:     Civil rights movements -- United States -- Fiction.
                        King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 -- Fiction.
                        African Americans -- Fiction.
                        Historical fiction.

 
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