Title: Ron's Big Mission
Description: One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut.
Subjects: Fiction, Childhood and youth, Libraries, Juvenile fiction, Books and reading, Segregation, African Americans, History, African American astronauts, Civil rights, African Americans and libraries, Biography, Children's fiction, Libraries, fiction, Books and reading, fiction, African americans, fiction, South carolina, fiction
Places: South Carolina
People: Ronald E. McNair (1950-1986)
Time periods: 20th century