Step by Step!

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Imagine you had to walk 600 miles to get fair treatment at school!</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Twelve-year-old Joyce Clemons introduces a fictional memory book documenting the little-known true story of nineteen Black mothers thirty-seven children and their two-year march to integrate an Ohio elementary school. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Following the landmark </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brown v. Board of Education</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> decision Black mothers in Hillsboro OH attempted to enroll their children at the all-white Webster School. However the local school board refused the call for integration. Demanding equal education a group of Black mothers and children marched to and from Webster daily-until Black students were admitted. In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Step by Step!</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New York Times</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> bestselling author Debbie Rigaud and coauthor Carlotta Penn thoughtfully capture the voice of a young activist and emphasize the power of Black mothers' leadership. Nysha Lilly's expressive illustrations with historical primary sources interspersed throughout immerse readers in the Lincoln School Marchers' fight. Rigaud and Penn simultaneously convey the challenges the marchers faced with the uplifting joy of a united community encouraging readers to keep on marching for justice. </span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Step by Step! </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a collaboration between Ohio nonprofit organization Ohio Humanities Daydreamers Press and a small group of Lincoln School alumni who resolved to share their story with the world. </span></p>