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1062) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A brief biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
1068) Nįa morena suęa
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
Nací en Ohio, pero las historias de Carolina del Sur corrían ya, como ríos, por mis venas. Hablan de crecer en distintos hogares, de una época que arrastra todavía los residuos de las leyes Jim Crow y del movimiento de los derechos civiles como respuesta.
Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"En 1848, Mary Walker nació siendo esclava. A los 15 años fue liberada. A los 20, se casó y tuvo su primer hijo. A los 68 aún trabajaba y recogía dinero para su iglesia. A los 114, era el último miembro de su familia que aún vivía. A los 116 años, Mary Walker aprendió a leer. Nunca es demasiado tarde para aprender."--
"A picture book biography sharing the inspiring and incredible true story of the nation's oldest student, Mary...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"This picture book biography in verse tells the story of Mary Hamilton, an African American woman and Civil Rights activist, who was found to be in contempt of court when she would not respond to questions from an Alabama judge who used only her first name, while calling white people 'Mr.,' 'Mrs.,' or 'Miss.' The NAACP took her case, which appealed all the way to the US Supreme Court, which ruled in Mary Hamilton's favor." --
1071) Identity; Vacancy
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Identity: Ten strangers are brought together at a motel because of a savage rainstorm. All take shelter at a desolate motel run by a nervous night manager. Relief in finding shelter is quickly replaced with fear as the ten travelers begin to die, one by one. They soon realize that, if they are to survive, they'll have to uncover the secret that has brought them all together.
Vacancy: When David and Amy's car breaks down in the middle of nowhere,...
1073) Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
World Almanac Library
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of the woman whose refusal to give up her seat on an Alabama bus helped galvanize the civil rights movement. Features quotations from Parks and others.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A racketeer and a bootlegger, Saint-Clair dedicated her wealth...
1077) Coretta Scott King
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Introduces the life and accomplishments of Coretta Scott King to young readers, and describes her childhood, education, marriage to civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and her work as an activist; and includes a time line.
Author
Series
Music matters volume 012
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton is best-known for two songs covered by white rock 'n' roll stars (Elvis Presley, "Hound Dog"; Janis Joplin, "Ball 'n' Chain") but she is unquestionably one of the great blueswomen of her generation. She embodies some of the clichés of the blues, too: Born in the South, raised in the church, appropriated by white performers, hard drinking, relatively early death, big nickname, buried in an indigent's grave. Lynnée...