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The nickel boys a novel /

As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is a...

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Main Author: Whitehead, Colson, 1969-
Format: Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Doubleday, [2019]
Physical Description: 213 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Florida School for Boys -- Fiction.
Abuse of administrative power -- Fiction.
African American boys -- Abuse of -- Fiction.
African American teenagers -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- Fiction.
Racism -- Fiction.
Reformatories -- Fiction.
Reformatories -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Civil rights -- Fiction.
Male friendship -- Fiction.
Teenagers -- Fiction.
African Americans -- Segregation -- Fiction.
Frenchtown (Tallahassee, Fla.) -- Fiction.
Florida -- Fiction.
United States -- Race relations -- Fiction.

CMU Bestsellers 1st Floor

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