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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A 50th-anniversary tribute shares the story of the youngest person to complete the momentous Selma to Montgomery March, describing her frequent imprisonments for her participation in nonviolent demonstrations and how she felt about her involvement in historic Civil Rights events.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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No discussion of the Civil Rights Movement is complete without the story of Rosa Parks. But what was this activist like as a child? Following young Rosa from a fishing creek to a one-room schoolhouse, from her wearing homemade clothes to wondering what "white" water tastes like, readers will be inspired by the experiences that shaped one of the most famous African-Americans in history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.
5) Rosa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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900L
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This book is an account of Rosa Parks and her refusal to give up her seat on a city bus, an event that changed our history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
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How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that...
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