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41) Harriet Tubman
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Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"How much do you know about Harriet Tubman? Find out the facts you need to know about this conductor on the Underground Railroad. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American."--
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her remarkable emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As a girl coming of age during the Civil Rights Movement, Patricia Bath made it her mission to become a doctor. When obstacles like racism, poverty, and sexism threatened this goal, she persevered--brightening the world with a game-changing treatment for blindness!
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents the life and achievements of Coretta Scott King, discussing her vital role in the Civil Rights Movement, her awareness campaigns, and her efforts to continue the work of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a rhyming-text picture book about Raye Montague. After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Through it all, the gifted mathematician persisted-- finally gaining her well-deserved title in history: a pioneer who changed...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes.
50) Harriet Tubman
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Profiles the slave who escaped to freedom and helped others to do the same.
51) A history of me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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"A mother's account of her experience as the only Black child in school serves as an empowering message to her daughter"--
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"In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis, the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag with a few precious items as a token of love and to try to ensure Ashley's survival. Soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold. Decades later, Ashley's granddaughter Ruth embroidered this family history on the bag in spare yet haunting language--including Rose's wish...