Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men Cover:Hardcover Age Range: 3 - 8

Age Range:  3 - 8

there are signs that point to a cover-up

You can change the world for us all

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Race Against Time: The Untold Story of Scipio Jones and the Battle to Save Twelve Innocent Men Cover:Hardcover Age Range: 3 - 8In this key civil rights and social justice book for young readers, Scipio Africanus Jonesa self taught attorney who was born enslavedleads a momentous series of court cases to save twelve Black men who'd been unjustly sentenced to death. In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up