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41) Verano del 69
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"En el verano en que el hombre llega a la luna, el senador Ted Kennedy hunde un coche en Chappaquiddick y la música exalta los espíritus en Woodstock, Jessie experimentará los altibajos del amor y las relaciones familiares y será una espectadora privilegiada del verano más icónico del siglo XX.."-- Provided by Publisher.
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'It's hard to be a "Black Sheep Baxter," at least for 12-year-old Polly. From a poor white family, Polly's best friend, Timbre Ann Biggs, is black, making them the only "salt-and-pepper" friends in town. But in that fall of 1959, life in quiet Holcolm County starts to heat up as one by one, thriving colored businesses burn to the ground. ... A vivid portrait of the Jim Crow South, Polly's inspiring story captures the defiant spirit of youth in an...
45) Mourner's bench
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"At the First Baptist Church of Maeby, Arkansas, the sins of the child belonged to the parents until the child turned thirteen. Sarah Jones was only eight years old in the summer of 1964, but with her mother Esther Mae on eight prayer lists and flipping around town with the generally mistrusted civil rights organizers, Sarah believed it was time to get baptized and take responsibility for her own sins. That would mean sitting on the mourners bench...
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