Carlotta's Special Dress

Carlotta’s Special Dress: How a Walk to School Changed Civil Rights History, a children’s book by Little Rock Nine member Carlotta Walls LaNier co-written with Lisa Frazier Page and illustrated by Vanessa Brantley-Newton.

Illustration of young black girl with short hair wearing dress with squiggles on it holding book standing in front of other black students crowd of white adults yelling in background holding signs with text "No Race Mixing" and "Go Home!"

Courtesy of Little, Brown Publishing

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