Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Dear America Dear America 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… OL15920465W
As fast as words could fly As fast as words could fly 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… OL19968285W
Legacies of Brown Legacies of Brown 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… OL20545811W
Yankee Girl Yankee Girl 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 … OL20904335W
My Mother the Cheerleader My Mother the Cheerleader 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… OL278119W
Mississippi Harmony Mississippi Harmony 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… OL5957480W
Daisy Bates Daisy Bates Amy Polakow A biography of the civil rights activist who led the fight to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1950s. OL5958491W