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Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"This book for elementary readers outlines key dates throughout this change maker's life. Full-color photographs and a timeline depict each step in the road to change, from Harriet Tubman's early life in slavery to her work liberating slaves as a famous conductor of the Underground Railroad. A glossary, further resources, and an index are included"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory account of the actions taken by the first president to retain his slaves in spite of Northern laws profiles one of the slaves, Ona Judge, describing the intense manhunt that ensued when she ran away."--NoveList.
"When George and Martha Washington moved from their beloved Mount Vernon in Virginia to Philadelphia, then the seat of the nation's capital, they took nine enslaved people with them. They would serve as cooks and horsemen, as...
67) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Reference
Pub. Date
2002, �2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Using a variety of primary sources, this biography of Harriet Tubman describes the life of a former slave who was responsible for helping many other slaves to freedom.
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
"Gymnast Simone Biles was born with a unique set of talents that sent her soaring into the record books. Her extraordinary ability and tireless drive make her accomplishments all but impossible to surpass. Simone Biles may simply be the greatest gymnast of all time."-- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Stacey Abrams, politician and Nobel peace prize nominee, is brought to life in this poetic picture book biography that follows Abrams's fight for voters' rights. Narrated by Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Septima Clark, and Fannie Lou Hamer, this powerful story tells how Abrams's work was inspired by those luminaries before her." --
Author
Publisher
Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Decades before Elvis Presley was dubbed the King of Rock and Roll, before Billy Haley played 'Rock Around the Clock,' and before the Beatles revolutionized popular music, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe, a Black guitar player from Cotton Plant, Arksansas."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King, discussing her vital role in the Civil Rights Movement, her awareness campaigns, and her efforts to continue the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
They threw rocks and rotten eggs at the school windows. Villagers refused to sell Miss Crandall groceries or let her students attend the town church. Her schoolhouse was set on fire -- by whom and how remains a mystery. The town authorities dragged her to jail and put her on trial for breaking the law. Her crime? Trying to teach African American girls geography, history, reading, philosophy, and chemistry. Trying to open and maintain one of the first...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Espa�nol
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
En el contexto del Sur de Jim Crow con su segregaci�on racial, y el movimiento de derechos civiles. Esta es la verdadera historia, nunca antes contada, de las mujeres afroamericanas de la NASA expertas en matem�aticas, que desempe�naron un papel crucial en el programa espacial de Estados Unidos, y cuyas contribuciones han permanecido an�onimas... hasta ahora.Antes de que John Glenn girara en �orbita alrededor de la Tierra, o Neil Armstrong...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as "Human Computers," calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were a coterie of bright, talented African-American women. Segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws, these "colored computers," as they were known, used slide rules, adding machines, and pencil and paper to support America's...
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