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Dear America
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Andrea Davis Pinkney |
Coretta Scott King winner Andrea Davis Pinkney brings her talents to a brand-new Dear America diary about the Civil Rights Movement.
In the fall of 1955, twelve-year-old Dawn Rae Johnson's life tu… |
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As fast as words could fly
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Pamela M. Tuck |
"A thirteen-year-old African American boy in 1960s Greenville, North Carolina, uses his typing skills to make a statement as part of the Civil Rights movement. Based on true events. Includes author's… |
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Legacies of Brown
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Stella M. Flores |
"This book illuminates the effects of segregation, desegregation, and integration on students, practitioners, communities, and policymakers in the fifty years since the landmark Brown v. Board of Edu… |
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Yankee Girl
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Mary Anne Rodman |
It's 1964 and Alice has moved to Mississippi from Chicago with her family. Nicknamed 'Yankee Girl' and taunted by the in-crowd at school, Alice soon discovers the other new girl Valerie - one of the … |
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My Mother the Cheerleader
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Robert Sharenow,Rob Sharenow |
Louise Collins was pretty certain that nothing all that exciting would happen in the Ninth Ward of New Orleans, where she lived with her mother in their boarding house, Rooms on Desire. Every day was… |
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Mississippi Harmony
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Winson Hudson |
"A lifelong native of the rural, all-black community of Harmony, Winson has lived through some of the most racially oppressive periods in her state's history - and has devoted her life to combating d… |
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Daisy Bates
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Amy Polakow |
A biography of the civil rights activist who led the fight to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1950s. |
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