Sharon Robinson: Growing up during Civil Rights Movement

Author Sharon Robinson talks about growing up during the civil rights movement. She saw how it impacted the South as well as her own experience with the changes that were happening in the U.S.

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Sharon Robinson

Children’s Author

Sharon Robinson is the author of fiction and nonfiction books for children. Sharon has written several widely praised books about her father — baseball legend Jackie Robinson — including Child of the Dream (A Memoir of 1963), The Hero Two Doors Down, Promises to Keep: How Jackie Robinson Changed America, Jackie Robinson: American Hero, and the picture book Testing the Ice.

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