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The Making of a Dream: How a group of undocumented immigrants changed what it means to be American

✍ Scribed by Wides-Muñoz, Laura

Book ID
109944331
Publisher
HarperCollins
Year
2017
Tongue
English
Weight
2 MB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780062560124

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✦ Synopsis

A journalist chronicles the next chapter in civil rights--the story of a movement and a nation, witnessed through the poignant and inspiring experiences of five young undocumented activists who are transforming society's attitudes toward one of the most contentious political matters roiling America today: immigration.

They are called the DREAMers: young people who were brought, or sent, to the United States as children and who have lived for years in America without legal status. Growing up, they often worked hard in school, planned for college, only to learn they were, in the eyes of the United States government and many citizens, "illegal aliens."

Determined to take fate into their own hands, a group of these young undocumented immigrants risked their safety to "come out" about their status--sparking a transformative movement, engineering a seismic shift in public opinion on immigration, and inspiring other social movements across the country. Their...

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