Fire in the Streets

Fire in the Streets

by Kekla Magoon

Created by Aubrianna, a teen writer at the Simpson Street Free Press in Madison, WI.
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In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.

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