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42) The Jim Crow Era
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Learn about the Jim Crow laws that segregated public schools, public places, transportation, and even drinking fountains. This title offers primary sources, Fast facts and sidebars, prompts and activities, and more.
Aligned to Common Core standards and correlated to state standards.
Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World features Riley's grandson, Caleb, and Lola photographed in timeless black and white, dressed as important individuals such as business owners, educators, civil rights leaders, and artists, alongside detailed biographies that begin with the figures as young children who had the same ambitions, fears, strengths, and obstacles facing them that readers today may still experience. Muhammad Ali's...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army...
45) Kevin's Kwanzaa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Kevin is excited for his turn to light the candles on the last night of Kwanzaa. As he narrates through the week of Kwanzaa, readers learn about the origins, purpose, and rituals of this holiday
47) LeBron James
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Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Engaging images accompany information about LeBron James. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Recounts the events surrounding the 1957 photograph taken by Will Counts that captured one of nine African-American students trying to enter an Arkansas high school while being taunted by an angry white mob and discusses how the photo brought the civil rights movement to the forefront of the nation's attention.
51) Steph Curry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Engaging images accompany information about Steph Curry. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7.
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Appears on list
Description
ABC That Could Be Me is an alphabet picture book written and illustrated to empower Black children across the world. This book champions Black excellence by showing kids they can be doctors, lawyers, the president, and so much more! Read about people like Paul R. William, the first Black architect, Marie Maynard Daly, the first Black chemist, and more who paved the way for the next generation to do great things in this world. This vibrant picture...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Remond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Martin Luther King Jr. followed the lead of Mahatma Gandhi and employed nonviolent civil disobedience to fight discrimination. His methods brought about some of the most effective civil rights legislation in our country's history and earned him a Nobel Peace Prize. Those methods also brought criticism from whites who said he was pushing too fast, and from African Americans who advocated violence to speed up change"--Provided by the publisher.
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Pub. Date
[2021].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
John Horse was a famed chief, warrior, tactician, and diplomat who played a dominant role in Black Seminole affairs for half a century. A political and military leader of mixed Seminole and African heritage, Horse defended his people from the U.S. government, other tribes, and slave hunters by serving as a counselor of fellow Seminole leaders, an agent of the U.S. government, and a captain in the Mexican army.
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Relates the history of Washington, D.C. during the early to mid-nineteenth century through the story of African American Michael Shiner, whose diary excerpts are woven throughout the text along with other primary sources and images.
"This book for young readers tells the story of Washington, D.C., through the story of an African American man, Michael Shiner, who lived there from approximately 1804 to 1880 and who kept a journal, excerpts of which...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The true story of Black activist Opal Lee and her vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone will inspire children to be brave and make a difference. Growing up in Texas, Opal knew the history of Juneteenth, but she soon discovered that most Americans had never heard of the holiday that represents the nation's creed of "freedom for all.""--
"The true story of Black activist Opal Lee and her vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone celebrates...