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Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Learn about identities, true histories, and anti-racism in twenty [lessons]. This book is written so young people will feel empowered to stand up to the adults in their lives. This book will give them the language and ability to understand racism and a drive to undo it"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
xvii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents"--
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
“When it comes to justice, there is no easy way to get it. You can’t sugarcoat it. You have to take a stand and say, ‘This is not right.’” – Claudette Colvin
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette...
Series
Publisher
Greenhaven Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
200 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In 2012, a seventeen-year-old African American boy named Trayvon Martin was murdered in cold blood by a neighborhood vigilante. When the murderer was acquitted, shockwaves ran through African American communities across the United States. The frustration over the perceived lack of value of African Americans in the United States spurred #BlackLivesMatter. The activist group mobilized as a rash of killings of unarmed African Americans by police seemed...