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Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in education due to racial bias. Desegregation and Integration explores the intents and effects of both concepts--especially as it relates to schools and education--in a comprehensive, honest, and age-appropriate way. Developed in conjunction with educator, advocate, and author Kelisa Wing to reach children of all...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For months six-year-old Ruby Bridges must confront the hostility of white parents when she becomes the first African American girl to integrate Frantz Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Almost ten years before Brown vs. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez and her parents helped end school segregation in California. An American citizen of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage who spoke and wrote perfect English, Mendez was denied enrollment to a whites-only school. Her parents took action by organizing the Hispanic community and filing a lawsuit in federal district court. Their success eventually brought an end to the era of segregated...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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"In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. At first things went smoothly for the Clinton 12, but then outside agitators interfered, pitting the townspeople against one another. Uneasiness turned into anger, and even the Clinton Twelve themselves wondered...
5) Ruby Bridges
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Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that schools had to allow Black students to attend previously all-white schools. On September 4, 1957, nine Black students were set to attend Little Rock Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas. But when they arrived, an angry mob of white people spat at them and hurled racist insults. They were also prevented from entering the school by the National Guard. After they were finally allowed in weeks later, they faced...
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
"Follow the story of Carlotta Walls LaNier, who in 1957 at the age of fourteen was one of nine black students who integrated the all-white Little Rock Central High School and became known as the Little Rock Nine. At fourteen years old, Carlotta Walls was the youngest member of the Little Rock Nine. The journey to integration in a place deeply against it would not be not easy. Yet Carlotta, her family, and the other eight students and their families...
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