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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 730L
Language
English
Description
The true story of an extraordinary six-year-old who helped shape American history when she became the first African-American sent to first grade in an all white school. This moving picture book captures the courage of a little girl standing alone in the face of racism.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Ruby Bridges was born during the time of segregation in the South. In 1960, she made history when she attended an all-white school. Follow her story and learn why we still celebrate her courage today.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
In 1957 Melba Pattillo turned sixteen. That was also the year she became a warrior on the front lines of a civil rights firestorm. Following the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board Education, she was one of nine teenagers chosen to integrate Little Rock's Central High School. This is her remarkable story. You will listen to the cruel taunts of her schoolmates and their parents. You will run with her from the threat of a lynch mob's...
Series
Breakthroughs in the sociology of education volume Volume 4
Publisher
Sense Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout" -- returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her. Memories from her childhood flood back, and her values and...
Author
Series
Dear America volume 40
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
"Retracing Supreme Court decisions on race and education beginning with the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Wolters distinguishes between desegregation and integration and shows how devastating educational and cultural consequences resulted from subsequent Supreme Court decisions that conflated the two and led to racial balancing policies that have backfired"--Provided by publisher.