How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Weatherford Carole Boston
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Weatherford Carole Boston From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting portrait of determination against…
Specifikacia How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Weatherford Carole Boston
How Do You Spell Unfair?: Macnolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee Weatherford Carole Boston
From a multi-award-winning pair comes a deeply affecting portrait of determination against discrimination: the story of young spelling champion MacNolia Cox.MacNolia Cox was no ordinary kid.Her idea of fun was reading the dictionary.In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. She left her home state a celebrity--right up there with Ohio's own Joe Louis and Jesse Owens--with a military band and a crowd of thousands to see her off at the station. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, where she and a girl from New Jersey were the first African Americans invited since its founding.
Prejudice and But celebration turned to chill when the train crossed the state line into Maryland, where segregation was the law of the land.