All You Have to Do (Autumn Allen)

Summary: Two black men attend presitigious schools nearly thirty years apart, and yet both navigate similar forms of insidious racism.

In April 1968, in the wake of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination, Kevin joins a protest that shuts down his Ivy League campus...

In September 1995, amidst controversy over the Million Man March, Gibran challenges the "See No Color" hypocrisy of his prestigious New England prep school...

As the two students, whose lives overlap in powerful ways, risk losing the opportunities their parents worked hard to provide, they move closer to discovering who they want to be instead of accepting as fact who society and family tell them they are. (from amazon.com)

Where can I find it?: Upper School library, Walczak building

Tags: African American Students; Assassination; Discrimination in education; Historical fiction; King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968; Novels; Preparatory schools; Race relations; Racism; Racism in schools; School fiction; Social problem fiction; Student movements United States; Young adult fiction