Steamboat School

Author/Contributor(s):	Hopkinson, Deborah
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Date:	06/07/2016
Binding:	Hardcover
Condition:	NEW

In 1847 St. Louis, Missouri, when a new law against educating African Americans forces Reverend John to close his school, he finds an ingenious solution to the new state law by moving his school to a steamboat in the Mississippi River. Includes author's note on Reverend John Berry Meachum, a minister, entrepreneur, and educator who fought tirelessly for the rights of African Americans.