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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
86 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles thirty-five prominent men in African American history, including James Armistead Lafayette, Thurgood Marshall, Alvin Ailey, and Leland Melvin.
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Physical Desc
205 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every innovator started out as a kid--and in some cases, were kids when they began experimenting with ideas to change the world! Kid Innovators tells the stories of a diverse group of trailblazers in fields like technology, education, business, science, art, and entertainment. Featuring kid-friendly text and full color illustrations on nearly every page, readers will learn about the exciting discoveries, advancements, and inventions made by Grace...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
This story reveals the life of a Native American boy named Wassaja, who was kidnapped from his tribe and sold as a slave. Adopted and renamed Carlos Montezuma, the young boy traveled throughout the Old West, bearing witness to the poor treatment of Native Americans. Carlos eventually became a doctor and leader for his people.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
xvi, 223 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of five Concord, Massachusetts, writers whose works were at the center of mid-nineteenth-century American thought and literature evaluates their interconnected relationships, influence on each other's works, and complex beliefs.
Author
Publisher
Amistad/Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Martin Luther King's wife, Coretta, who in her own right, was a civil rights pioneer who experienced the injustices of the segregated South and who continued her husband's mission after his assassination.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918-), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942-).