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1) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Lewis Latimer was one of the greatest inventors of his time. He was also an engineer who transformed the lightbulb at Thomas Edison s company. And he was a gifted artist, too! Experience all the exciting moments in Lewis Latimer s thrilling life in this exciting biography, packed with two-color illustrations and fun facts, like who invented the Super Soaker!"-- cover page 4.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"From the first attempts to end slavery in the 1800s to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s, women were in the forefront of the struggle to achieve equality for Black Americans. Rosa Parks in Montgomery and Viola Desmond in Canada both sparked effective mass movements that led to change, while other women led the way in educating Black voters and organizing protests such as lunch-counter sit-ins and the Freedom Rides. As soon as they...
16) The girl from the tar paper school: Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief, illustrated, biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.
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