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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"This is the story of how the movement that started with a hashtag--#BlackLivesMatter--spread across the nation and then across the world and the journey that led one of its co-founders, Patrisse Khan-Cullors, to this moment. Patrisse Khan-Cullors grew up in an over-policed United States where incarceration of Black people runs rampant. Surrounded by police brutality, she gathered the tools and lessons that would lead her on to found one of the most...
2) Solitary: unbroken by four decades in solitary confinement : my storory of transformation and hope
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Solitary is the unforgettable life story of a man who served more than four decades in solitary confinement―in a 6-foot by 9-foot cell, 23 hours a day, in notorious Angola prison in Louisiana―all for a crime he did not commit. That Albert Woodfox survived was, in itself, a feat of extraordinary endurance against the violence and deprivation he faced daily. That he was able to emerge whole from his odyssey within America’s prison and judicial...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As senior pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church, and now as a senator from Georgia, he is the ... voice who can call the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary American life and, at a time of division, summon us all to a higher moral ground. Senator Warnock grew up in the Kayton Homes housing projects in Savannah, the eleventh of twelve children. ... After...
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Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Profiles prominent men and women of the civil rights movement, including Charles Houston, Ella Baker, Thurgood Marshall, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, Julian Bond, and Jesse Jackson.
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Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Before Raphael Warnock became a pastor and the first Black senator from Georgia, he was a little boy whose father told him to get up, get dressed, put on his shoes, and get ready! So that's what he did, along every step of his journey. From his work boots to his marching band shoes to his shiny lace-ups, Senator Reverend Warnock found the right shoes to fit his feet and to carry him toward his dreams. This inspirational story, with bold, brilliant...
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