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Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two black girls living in the North are proud of their family's beautiful new Cadillac until they take it on a visit to the South and encounter racial prejudice for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Discusses the Freedom Rides, an important event in the Civil Rights Movement, including the riders who risked their lives, the violence the riders faced, and the successful integration of interstate buses and terminals"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"...Perry Wallace courageously accepted the invitation to become the first African American to play college basketball in the deeply segregated Southeastern Conference...The hateful experiences Wallace would suffer on campus and in the hostile gymnasiums of the Deep South turned out to be the stuff of nightmares. Yet he persisted, endured, and triumphed, meeting a series of unthinkable challenges head-on..." (From book jacket).
Author
Series
Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 4
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Four children witness a confrontation between an elderly man and a white storekeeper in rural Mississippi in the 1930s.
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