Loving vs. Virginia : a documentary novel of the landmark civil rights case / by Patricia Hruby Powell ; artwork by Shadra Strickland.
Material type: TextPublisher: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2017]Description: 260 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781452125909
- 1452125902
- Loving versus Virginia
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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YA Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | YA Fiction | Powell, Patricia | Available | 33111008580413 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it. Richard and Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the devoted couple who faced discrimination, fought it, and won.
Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253).