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Respress-Churchwell, Gloria

Follow Chester!: A College Football Team Fights Racism and Makes History

32 pp. | Charlesbridge | September, 2019 | Trade ISBN 978-1-58089-835-5 $16.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-63289-723-7
(4) K-3 Illustrated by Laura Freeman. In 1947 there was "an unwritten college-football agreement that said when integrated…teams played schools in the South, they wouldn't play their black players." Respress-Churchwell tells the fictionalized (somewhat awkwardly) story of how Chester Pierce and his Harvard team broke this rule. Color-saturated digital illustrations highlight Pierce's deep-brown skin tone--along with Harvard's crimson and gold school colors and the green football fields. Bib.
Reviewer: Elissa Gershowitz

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