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Review of ‘A Sweet Smell of Roses’

The important role of protest marches in America's civil rights movement is explored in A Sweet Smell of Roses. Written by Angela Johnson, a 2003 MacArthur Fellow, this is a lyrical, simple story of two girls who slip out of the house one morning to march with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Eric Velasquez's…

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