Lies We Tell Ourselves: Shortlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal

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Robin Talley. Lies We Tell Ourselves: Shortlisted for the 2016 Carnegie Medal

Chapter 1. Friday, September 15, 2017

Chapter 2. Monday, June 27, 1955

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In 1959 Virginia, the lives of two girls on opposite sides of the battle for civil rights will be changed forever.

Sarah Dunbar is one of the first black students to attend the previously all-white Jefferson High School. An honors student at her old school, she is put into remedial classes, spit on and tormented daily.

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Others join in. The whole world is a sea of angry white faces and bright white flashbulbs. “Two, four, six, eight! We don’t want to—”

“Is the NAACP paying you to go to school here?” a reporter shouts. “Why are you doing this?”

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