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Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Relates the true story of the Matthew and Mae Carter family, in simple text with illustrations, and how they helped to integrate an all-white school in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, suffering years of name-calling, humiliation, and death threats.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"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 note"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"When Ruby Bridges was six years old, she became the first African American student to integrate an elementary school in the South. Told in the perspective of her six year old self and based on the pivotal events that happened in 1960, Ruby tells her story like never before. Embracing her name and learning that even at six years old she was able to pave the path for future generations, this is a story full of hope, innocence, and courage"--
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