Summary Of Johnny Lightboure

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In chapter 5 in Bad Boy, in 1947 the two black players and their names are Larry Doby, and Jackie Robinson From the all black Negro Leagues. The president named is President Harry S. Truman considers to be negotiating with black leaders to armed force. Myers has a brother named George Myers, and he was a smallish brown and he wore glasses and they call George Myers Mickey. Walter Dean Myers was raised as the fourth kid of the Dean family, and he considers the Deans family to be Walter’s “real family”. Walter has a family member that just got of jail and his named is Leroy. On page 35, the named Richard Aisles whose son out to be trumpet player, and a jazz musician who lived at the next building. Johnny Lightboure, a boy that is about

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