Midnight Without a Moon Vocab

Midnight Without a Moon Vocab
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Midnight Without a Moon Linda Williams Jackson

Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson

By Lauren Ayube

Rose Lee Carter is a 13 year old African American girl living in Mississippi in 1955. She spends her days picking cotton and her nights dreaming of the North, where she can have a better life. Midnight Without a Moon is an important historical fiction novel about the coming of age during one of the most pivotal times in American history.




Midnight Without a Moon

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Vocabulary examples for Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson

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  • Plantation
  • (n.) an area on which crops such as cotton, coffee, and sugar are cultivated.
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  • Unjust
  • Not guilty of the murder of Emmett Till!
  • (adj.) Not based on or behaving according to what is morally right or fair.
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  • Segregation
  • WhitesOnly
  • BlacksOnly
  • (n.) the enforced and systematic separation of different racial groups in daily life.