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1121) A step toward Brown v. Board of Education: Ada Lois Sipuel Fisher and her fight to end segregation
Author
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xvii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
1122) Molly Bannaky
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 33 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates how Benjamin Banneker's grandmother journeyed from England to Maryland in the late seventeenth century, worked as an indentured servant, began a farm of her own, and married a freed slave.
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Dr. Jessica Pryce knows the child welfare system firsthand and, in this long overdue book, breaks it down from the inside out, sharing her professional journey and offering the crucial perspectives of caseworkers and Black women impacted by the system. It is a groundbreaking and eye-opening confrontation of the inherent and systemic racism deeply entrenched within the child welfare system. Pryce started her social work career with an internship where...
1124) Salt the water
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A confrontation with a teacher and a family crisis force high school senior Cerulean Gene to drop out of twelfth grade and derails their dreams of moving cross-country and living off the grid.
Author
Series
Desmond Cole ghost patrol volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
122 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Desmond and Andres go to the Kersville Library for a school assignment, they encounter a ghost who insists they be quiet.
Author
Series
Publisher
New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Keeping It Unreal: Black Queer Fantasy and Superhero Comics explores how fantasy-especially superhero comics, which are usually derided as naïve and childish-is a catalyst for engaging the black radical imagination. Such engagements prompt "fantasy-acts" against antiblackness, a transgressive way of "reading" beyond the comic-book page to envision and to experience alternate, and potentially more just, realities. Fantasies about superhero characters...
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
165 p. : col. ill. ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Cčile Rey searches through many corners of 1854 New Orleans seeking a necklace, borrowed from her Tante Tay, that disappeared as she was exiting a crowded showboat. Includes facts about the 1850s.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
269 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (23 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this new 2023 high-definition program, learn all about how the United States criminal justice system, educational system, and urban planning have hurt Black boys and men. What are the solutions going forward to turn the tide against this specific demographic group? How can the cycle of poverty be broken? What are reparations, and are they the solution to the inequities of generational wealth not afforded to many Black families due to the history...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens' Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A poignant account of the author's brief years shared with his civil rights leader father offers insight into their special bond, their separation during Dr. King's imprisonment and the author's 5-year-old witness to the famous I Have a Dream speech.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When taking cornbread to Grandma, Mahogany encounters a hungry wolf and outsmarts him by cleverly hiding in the woods and using her sewing skills to trap him"--Provided by publisher.
Mahogany is taking gumbo to Grandma's house in the woods when she encounters a hungry wolf, and uses her nerve and skill at sewing to help her trap him.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Long before the uprising at the Capitol, the threat of insurrection has held a mirror to America's highest ideals and deepest fears. The Insurrection Act of 1807-passed amid pervasive fears of slave rebellion-authorizes the president to deploy federal troops to quell domestic uprisings. Invoked during Reconstruction and the civil rights movement, the Act was deployed to enforce the promise of equal citizenship for Black Americans. But the Act has...
1134) Gets in the game
Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Simon joins the basketball team, he is excited to be a part of a neighborhood tradition, but after some of his teammates leave for a better team, he decides to organize a pep rally to help Creighton Park and the community feel like they are part of something special.
1136) Between the world and me
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
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Description
"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
1137) Muhammad Ali
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces Muhammad Ali, detailing how young Cassius Clay learned how to box and became a legendary athlete, civil rights activist, and global icon.
1138) Census maps, 2012
Publisher
Colorado Department of Local Affairs, Division of Local Government, State Demography Office
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (12 files) : illustrations
Language
English
1139) The secret detective
Author
Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
253 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ali Cross and his friends chase police cases while Ali is caught up in a debate about policing"--
1140) Friday I'm in love
Author
Publisher
Ember, an imprint of Random House Children's books
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"After not being able to have a sweet sixteen party, Mahalia decides to throw a coming out party to celebrate love and herself"--Provided by publisher.
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