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Born into slavery, Booker T. Washington is freed when he is nine years old. To help support his family, he then works as a salt packer, coal miner, and house servant. All the while, he longs to become educated and to educate others. Poverty, racism, and other obstacles stand in his way. Will he overcome them all, or will the many barriers prove stronger than his unwavering determination?
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From her life as a slave child who was whipped for stealing a lump of sugar, to her role as a leader in the Underground Railroad, and as a nurse and spy during the Civil War, Harriet Tubman is a fascinating subject for this lively biography that is presented in brief vignettes. Basic facts and information about Tubman's life and other issues surrounding this time in American history provide a wonderful first glimpse for young readers into the life...
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A boy from North carolina spends the summer in New York City visiting the neighborhood of Harlem, where his uncle, collage artist Romare Bearden, grew up. Includes a biographical sketch of Bearden and instructions on making a story collage.
4) John Henry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Retells the legend of the African-American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment fifty years ago. In order to learn firsthand how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another, he dyed his white skin dark, left his family, and traveled to the South to live as a black man. What began as scientific research ended up changing his life in every way imaginable. This is an eyewitness account of discrimination and segregation that is terrifying...
8) Jubilee
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English
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The fortunes of a mulatto girl--as a slave during the Civil War and then as a woman freed by the Emancipation Proclamation.
10) The Skin I'm in
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
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Draws on the author's personal experiences from other countries and his observations and studies concerning America looking at the current state of race relations in this country and illuminates options for a race-neutral, discrimination free society to develop and flourish.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Throughout his life Banneker was troubled that all blacks were not free. And so, in 1791, he wrote to Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, who had signed the Declaration of Independence. Banneker attacked the institution of slavery and dared to call Jefferson a hypocrite for owning slaves. Jefferson responded. This is the story of Benjamin Banneker-his science, his politics, his morals, and his extraordinary correspondence with Thomas Jefferson. Illustrated...
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