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This YA biography-in-verse of six important Black Americans from
different eras, including Ona Judge, Frederick Douglass, Harriet
Tubman, Ida B. Wells, Martin Luther King Jr., and Barack Obama,
chronicles the diverse ways each fought racism and shows how
much—and how little—has changed for Black Americans since our
country’s founding. Full of daring escapes, deep emotion, and
subtle lessons on how racism operates, A LONG TIME COMING reveals
the universal importance of its subjects’ struggles for justice.
From freedom seeker Ona Judge, who fled her enslavement by
America’s first president, to Barack Obama, the first Black
president, all of Shepard’s protagonists fight valiantly for
justice for themselves and all Black Americans in any way that they
can.  But it is also a highly personal book, as Shepard —
whose maternal grandfather was enslaved — shows how the grand
sweep of history has touched his life, reflecting on how much
progress has been made against racism, while also exhorting readers
to complete the vast work that remains to be done.
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