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Article: PAGES OF BOOK A TICKET TO FREEDOM AT LAKE VILLA PUBLIC LIBRARY
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- The News-Sun - Waukegan (IL)
- Article date:
- February 5, 2000
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LAKE VILLA -- A group of flaxen-haired home-schooled children inched closer recently to understanding the cruel history of race in America.
Once a month children from the Home Run Kids homeschool group out of Gurnee meet with librarian Paul Kaplan at the Lake Villa Public Library for a book discussion.
Last December they talked about the life of black leader and educator Booker T. Washington.
In January, they discussed "Richard Wright and the Library Card," by William Miller, a fictional account of an episode in "Black Boy," Wright's autobiography.
Wright, who was born in 1908, grew up in a soddenly segregated Mississippi where blacks talked to whites with their eyes lowered and got ...