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Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Muhammad Ali, from his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, his legendary boxing career, and his conversion to Islam and opposition to the war in Vietnam, to his appearance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atlanta.
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A biography of John Lewis, Georgia Congressman and one of the 'Big Six' civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his youth and culminating in the voter registration drives that sparked 'Bloody Sunday,' as hundreds of people walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Includes a note by Congressman Lewis and a timeline"--Provided by publisher.
11) I am Rosa Parks
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.
12) Lenny: Bojangles
Publisher
TGG Direct
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Films include: Lenny: The story of the complexities and contradictions of the legendary comedian Lenny Bruce’s mercurial character. Bojangles: Biography of the legendary showman Bill Robinson better known as Mr. Bojangeles.
Lenny: The story of the complexities and contradictions of the legendary comedian Lenny Bruce's mercurial character. Bojangles: Biography of the legendary showman Bill Robinson better known as Mr. Bojangles.
Publisher
Anchor Bay
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Francis Ford Coppola’s lavish, 1930s-era epic comes to a vivid new life in this newly remastered and restored version featuring never-before-seen scenes and musical sequences. The Cotton Club was a famous night club in Harlem. The story follows the people who visited the club, those who ran it and is peppered with the Jazz music that made it so famous.
Francis Ford Coppola's lavish, 1930s-era epic comes to a vivid new life in this newly remastered...