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1-13 of 13 results for : "award winners "

Step Right Up: How Doc and Jim Key Taught the World about Kindness

Written by Donna Janell Bowmen

William "Doc" Key had a special way with animals. Growing up an enslaved child in Tennessee, Doc...

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The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement

Written by Teri Kanefield

Before the Little Rock Nine, before Rosa Parks, before Martin Luther King Jr. and his March on...

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Searching for Sarah Rector: The Richest Black Girl in America

Written by Tonya Bolden

Sarah Rector was once famously hailed as “the richest black girl in America.” Set against the...

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Fighting for Justice—Fred Korematsu Speaks Up

Written by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi

Fred Korematsu liked listening to music on the radio, playing tennis, and hanging around with his...

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Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library

Written by Carole Boston Weatherford

Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro-Puerto Rican...

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Answering the Cry for Freedom: Stories of African Americans and the American Revolution

Written by Gretchen Woelfle

Even as American Patriots fought for independence from British rule during the Revolutionary War,...

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Freedom Summer: The 1964 Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi

Written by Susan Goldman Rubin

An award-winning author offers a riveting account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.

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Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961

Written by Larry Dane Brimner

Twelve Days in May—Freedom Ride 1961

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Now or Never!—54th Massachusetts Infantry’s War to End Slavery

Written by Ray Anthony Shepard

Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War...

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Shadow Catcher: How Edward S. Curtis Documented American Indian Dignity and Beauty

Written by Michael Burgan

At the turn of the 20th century, photographer Edward S. Curtis devoted his life to learning all he...

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Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

Written by Tonya Bolden

Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln’s order went into effect, this...

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Sitting Bull: Lakota Warrior and Defender of His People

Written by S. D. Nelson

Sitting Bull (c. 1831–1890) was one of the greatest Lakota/Sioux warriors and chiefs who ever...

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The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights

Written by Steve Sheinkin

An astonishing civil rights story from Newbery Honor winner and National Book Award finalist Steve...

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