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Mississippi Bridge

by Mildred D. Taylor

Race relationsJuvenile fictionFictionPrejudicesAfrican AmericansHistorical fictionChildren's fictionMississippi, fiction

During a heavy rainstorm in 1930s rural Mississippi, a ten-year-old white boy sees a bus driver order all the black passengers off a crowded bus to make room for late-arriving white passengers and then set off across the raging Rosa Lee River.

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Book data: Open Library