Super Short Summary

Before six-year-old Ruby Bridges bravely walked into a Louisiana elementary school and brought down segregation laws, before the Little Rock Nine desegregated Arkansas schools, there was the Clinton 12. In This Promise of Change: One Girl's Story in the Fight for School Equality, one of the Clinton 12, Jo Ann Allen Boyce, tells of her part in desegregating the Tennessee school system. Cowritten with Debbie Levy and published by Bloomsbury Children's Books in 2019, Boyce presents her story in verse, offering young readers an accessible and powerful first-person account of what it was like to be on the civil rights front lines during a pivotal moment in modern American history.