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Author
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Written in verse, this inspiring biography chronicles the life of a queer civil rights and women's rights activist who fought for many of the rights taken for granted today, working tirelessly for human rights and the dignity of life for all.
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her poem, "Still I Rise," Angelou was able to lift herself out of her situation and flourish. She moved to California and became the first black and first female streetcar operator before following her interest in dance. She became a professional performer in her twenties and...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America -- the right to cast a ballot...
26) Dorothy Height
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Growing up as a Black girl in the 1920s and 1930s, Dorothy Height was denied access to a local swimming pool as well as admission to Barnard College because of her race. But she persisted in pushing for change, and became a seminal figure in both the civil rights and women's rights movements. She went on to be awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom. "--
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Pub. Division
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.
28) Georgia Gilmore
Author
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media, a division of Carson Dellosa Education
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Georgia Gilmore was an amazing cook. She had a big heart and loved to help others. When the cost to fund the Montgomery Bus Boycott became high, Georgia stepped in. She baked, fried, and simmered food to sell. Each week she donated all proceeds to the Civil Rights leaders.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy will live on"--
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"In this intimate biography, Chana Kai Lee documents Hamer's lifelong crusade to empower the poor through collective action, her rise to national prominence as a civil rights activist, and the personal costs of her ongoing struggle to win a political voice and economic self-sufficiency for blacks in the segregated South." "Offering a complex understanding of how racism, sexism, violence, and economic injustice intersected to spur the civil rights...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Includes poems about Josh Gibson, Aung San Suu Kyi, Coretta Scott King, Mitsuye Endo, Mamie Garthan Till, Helen Zia, Mohandas Gandhi, Ellison Onizuka, Harvey Milk, Jackie Robinson, Sylvia Mendez, Dennis James Banks, Nelson Mandela, Muhammad Yunus, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner. Includes biographical notes.
35) The girl from the tar paper school: Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
Author
Publisher
Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, shares his story of making his way in a world that wasn't built for him, drawing on his rich heritage as the son of a civil rights leader. As a proud son of Joe L. Reed, Steven Reed grew up hearing stories about how his father integrated Montgomery lunch counters and took advice directly from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Ralph Abernathy. However, it wasn't until Reed was in the fourth grade...
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Told through twelve short biographies, this book celebrates just some of the many Black women--each of whom has been largely underrepresented until now--who were instrumental to the nation's fight for civil rights and the contributions they made in driving the Movement forward"--
Author
Language
English
Description
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African...
40) Bayard Rustin
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bayard learned from an early how important equal rights were. He knew how to help people work together for equality without violence. He even played an important role in one of the most important civil rights events in American history.
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