Saving Savannah

Tonya Bolden
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The story of an African-American girl becoming a woman on her own terms against the backdrop of widespread social change in the early 1900s America. As a daughter of an upper class African American family in Washington D.C., Savannah is lucky. Feeling suffocated by the structure of society, Savannah meets a working-class girl named Nell who introduces her to the suffragette and socialist movements, inspiring her to fight for change.
Genres: Historical FictionYoung AdultFictionHistoricalRaceContemporaryAudiobookAfrican AmericanSocial Justice20th Century
240 Pages

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