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81) Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A biography of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955, led to a bus boycott that helped galvanize the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Provides a portrait of Rosa Parks, the African-American woman best known for her refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, at the beginning of the civil rights movement.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Documents the life and achievements of the nineteenth-century Northern Paiute leader, examining how her aptitude for languages and diplomacy enabled her to advocate on behalf of her tribe.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the life of Mary McLeod Bethune, an African American educator who fought poverty and discrimination, founded a college, and worked with Franklin Delano Roosevelt to improve opportunities for blacks.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Examines Rosa Parks and the influence on her life that led to her arrest in 1955 for refusing to give up her seat to a white person on a Montgomery, Alabama, bus, and discusses her continued involvement in the civil rights movement.
91) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the African American woman immortalized for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger examines who Rosa Parks was before, during, and after her historic act
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of a woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Bellwether Media
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
"People of character explores important character traits through the lives of famous historical figures. Rosa Parks highlights how this great individual demonstrated courage during her life. Intended for grades three through six"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young People
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 980L
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"In January of 1963, Sharon Robinson turned thirteen the night before George Wallace declared on national television 'segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever' in his inauguration for governor of Alabama. That was the start of a year that would become one of the most pivotal years in the history of America. As the daughter of Jackie Robinson, Sharon had incredible access to some of the most important events of the era, including...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
After being denied a seat on a New York City streetcar, Elizabeth Jennings begins the fight for equality by telling her story in churches, to newspapers, and finally in the courtroom.
100) Claudette Colvin
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 1170L
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Claudette Colvin in the She Persisted series"--