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Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the achievements and lasting influence of the heroic civil rights leader covers topics ranging from his organization of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to his famed "I Have a Dream" speech.
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
On Election Day, as they walk through their vibrant neighborhood on their way to vote, Quetta, her mother and her grandmother face obstacle after obstacle before and after reaching their voting station, showing Quetta the importance of raising her voice.
Author
Publisher
ABRAMS, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Overground Railroad chronicles the history of the Green Book, which was published from 1936 to 1966 and was the "Black travel guide to America." For years, it was dangerous for African Americans to travel in the United States. Because of segregation, Black travelers couldn't eat, sleep, or even get gas at most white-owned businesses. The Green Book listed hotels, restaurants, department stores, gas stations, recreational destinations, and other businesses...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc., Kaepernick Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This joyful celebration of black and brown lives is based on real events in the famous athlete and activist's young life and reveals the power of radical self-love and knowing your self-worth.
427) Slaves in the family
Author
Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
This program is read by the author.
More than twenty years after this celebrated work of narrative nonfiction won the National Book Award and changed the American conversation about race, Slaves in the Family makes its audio debut, with a new preface by the author.
The Ball family hails from South Carolina—Charleston and thereabouts. Their plantations were among the oldest and longest-standing plantations in the South.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Retells the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who became a deputy U.S. Marshal in the Indian Territory and was exceptional at tracking down fugitives and bringing them to justice.
Author
Series
Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his Harlem saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory. It's 1971. Trash piles up on the streets, crime is at an all-time high, the city is careening towards bankruptcy, and a shooting war has broken out between the NYPD and the Black Liberation Army. Amidst this collective nervous breakdown furniture store owner and ex-fence Ray Carney...
430) Dactyl Hill Squad
Author
Series
Dactyl Hill Squad volume 1
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
It's the summer of 1863, and as the Civil War rages between dinosaur-mounted armies down south, and a tense New York City seems on the brink of exploding into riots, Magdalys Roca and the other children at the Colored Orphan Asylum are trying to survive. But when she receives a letter telling her that her brother Montez was wounded, Magdalys knows that somehow she must reach him--and just possibly her ability to communicate telepathically with dinosaurs...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Reconstruction -- the period after the Civil War -- was meant to give newly freed Black people the same rights as white people. And indeed there were monumental changes once slavery ended -- thriving new Black communities, the first Black members in Congress, and a new sense of dignity for many Black Americans. But this time of hope didn't last long and instead, a deeply segregated United States continued on for another hundred years. Find out what...
Author
Publisher
The Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
"Jake Makes a World follows the creative adventures of the young Jacob Lawrence as he finds inspiration in the vibrant colors and characters of his community in Harlem. From his mother's apartment, where he is surrounded by brightly colored walls with intricate patterns; to the streets full of familiar and not-so-familiar faces, sounds, rhythms, and smells; to the art studio where he goes each day after school to transform his everyday world on an...
Author
Publisher
Dreamscape Media
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Mississippi, 1955: fourteen-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant. Till's attackers were never convicted, but his lynching became one of the most notorious hate crimes in American history. It launched protests across the country, helped the NAACP gain thousands of members, and inspired famous activists like Rosa Parks to stand up and fight for equal rights for the first...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In Seattle in 1937 two seventeen-year-olds, Henry, who is white, and Flora, who is African-American, become the unwitting pawns in a game played by two immortal figures, Love and Death, where they must choose each other at the end, or one of them will die.
437) A door made for me
Author
Publisher
WorthyKids
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After Tyler's first experience of overt racism, his grandfather reminds him that another person's hate does not change the fact that he is loved and perfect just as he is.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Shares the story of the pioneering African American mathematician, Katherine Johnson, who helped calculate America's first manned flight into space, its first manned orbit of Earth, and the world's first trip to the moon.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma, Alabama, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family's home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Yet the famous outrages which unfold on that span form an inescapable backdrop in this collection of stories. In one, Willie Mae takes it upon herself to offer summer babysitting services to a glamorous single...
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