How do you spell unfair? : MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee by Weatherford, Carole Boston 

BTSB Prebound(Candlewick Press, 2023)

BTSB #: 924812 Available

Dewey: 400/BAges: 7-10   
AR: 5.1 MG Lexile: 840 F&P: U

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Subjects: Cox, MacNolia National Spelling Bee African American women - Biography Race discrimination

Summary: In 1936, eighth grader MacNolia Cox became the first African American to win the Akron, Ohio, spelling bee. And with that win, she was asked to compete at the National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC, where she and a girl from New Jersey were the first African Americans invited since its founding. But celebration turned to chill when the train crossed the state line into Maryland, where segregation was the law of the land. Prejudice and discrimination ruled--sadly, at the spelling bee itself.