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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
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Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In a letter to his daughters, Barack Obama reflects on the traits of thirteen groundbreaking Americans, such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackie Robinson, and George Washington, and shares how children embody them.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An old man in India recalls how, when he was a young boy, he got his first taste of freedom as he and his brother joined the great Muhatma Gandhi on a march to the sea to make salt in defiance of British law.
5) As good as anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The story of two icons for social justice, how they formed a remarkable friendship and turned their personal experiences of discrimination into a message of love and equality for all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"A young white girl rides the bus with her father to the March on Washington in 1963--at which Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., would give his "I Have a Dream" speech. She comes to see that Dr. King's dream belongs not just to Blacks but to all Americans"--Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mumbet's Declaration of Independence tells the story of a Massachusetts slave from the Revolutionary era--in 1781, she successfully used the new Massachusetts Constitution to make a legal case that she should be free.
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