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Kid Lit Review of “How Do You Spell Unfair? MacNolia Cox and the National Spelling Bee” by Carole Boston Weatherford
In a Foreword, Weatherford relates that spelling bees have not always been open to Blacks in segregated areas in the US. In 1908, a 14-year-old Black girl from Ohio led her team to victory in a nat…