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Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
It's 1964 in Greenwood, Mississippi, and Sunny's town is being invaded by people from up north who are coming to help people register to vote. Her personal life isn't much better, as a new stepmother, brother, and sister are crowding into her life, giving her little room to breathe.--From publisher description.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Discusses the clash between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor, one peacefully protested segregation and the other vowed to enforce the severe segregation ordinances of Birmingham.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told through first-person accounts, Library of Congress records, and other primary sources, an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in Jim Crow America examines the period from various perspectives while explaining the impact of legal segregation and discrimination.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
"Following the Civil War, the Reconstruction era raised a new question to those in power in the US: Should African Americans, so many of them former slaves, be granted the right to vote? In a bitter partisan fight over the legislature and Constitution, the answer eventually became yes, though only after two constitutional amendments, two Reconstruction Acts, two Civil Rights Acts, three Enforcement Acts, the impeachment of a president, and an army...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Shares the life of the white seminary student who was killed fighting for civil rights for African Americans in the segregated South.
"Jonathan Daniels, a white seminary student from New Hampshire, traveled to Selma, Alabama, in 1965 to help with voter registration of black residents. After the voting rights marches, he remained in Alabama, in the area known as zBloody Lowndes,y an extremely dangerous area for white freedom fighters, to assist civil...
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