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Follow Chester!: A College Football Team Fights Racism and Makes History
Written by
Gloria Respress-Churchwell
and Illustrated by
Laura Freeman
In 1947, no African American player can play at a southern school; in return, the opposing team...
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Let the Children March
Written by
Monica Clark-Robinson
and Illustrated by
Frank Morrison
In 1963 Birmingham, Alabama, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their...
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Queen of the Track
Written by
Heather Lang
and Illustrated by
Floyd Cooper
When Alice Coachman was a girl, most white people wouldn't even shake her hand. Yet when the King of...
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Chicken Sunday
Written by
Patricia Polacco
A young white girl and her two black "brothers" devise a plan to raise money to buy the boys'...
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Poet: The Remarkable Story of George Moses Horton
Written and Illustrated by
Don Tate
George loved words. But George was enslaved. Forced to work long hours, George was unable to attend...
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The First Step: How One Girl Put Segregation on Trial
Written by
Susan E. Goodman
In 1847, an African American girl named Sarah Roberts attended school in Boston. One day she was...
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The Youngest Marcher
Written by
Cynthia Levinson
and Illustrated by
Vanessa Brantley-Newton
Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963...
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A Picture Book of Rosa Parks
Written by
David A. Adler
and Illustrated by
Robert Casilla
The story of Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama...
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Pink and Say
Written and Illustrated by
Patricia Polacco
Pink, an African-American Yankee soldier, rescues Say, a white Yankee soldier, after he was wounded...
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