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THE SILENCE OF OUR FRIENDS: THE CIVIL RIGHTS STRUGGLE WAS NEVER BLACK OR WHITE

Silence of our friends
Author Information
Author's Last Name: 
Long
Author's First Name: 
Mark
Second Author's First Name: 
Jim
Second Author's Last Name: 
Demonakos
Illustrator's First Name: 
Nate
Illustrator's Last Name: 
Powell
Publisher: 
First Second
Publication Date: 
2012

Well-drawn, expressive black and white illustrations emphasize the racial conflicts in Houston during 1968. Long’s semi-autobiographical graphic novel recounts that his father, a white television reporter, realized that he and an African-American professor at Texas Southern University must try to become friends if they would overcome racism.

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