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Summary Students On Strike, is a memoir about African American students who protested against the conditions of their high school in Virginia. Unfortunately, these students had a to walk miles just to attend school for all blacks. John Stokes wasn't able to attend school until he was able to walk and be responsible for himself. If I had to pick a country that I was able to connect this book with it would have to be the United States. The first connection I was able to make was when the author and a group of his friends walked out of school. They were protesting against the terrible and nasty the conditions of the school was in. Such as dirty bathrooms, leaking buildings and lack of heat. This problem remembered of when the teachers

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