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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Few men in American history are as controversial as Malcolm X. In this provocative biography, Myers, winner of a Newbery Honor and four-time Coretta Scott King Award winner, presents a forthright portrait of a complex man whose life reflected the major events of our times.
2) Feast for 10
Author
Description
Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop andwork togeteher to prepare a meal.
Author
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Using true accounts of Afraican Americans in the New World, the author puts readers in the shoes of eleven extraordinary individuals, and documents the many forms of slave resistance: subversion, uprisings, escape, poetry, religion, and song.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After World War I, many African Americans found a welcoming home in Paris while the fight for civil rights continued in the United States. African American soldiers, writers, performers, and activists influenced French society. Blacks in Paris: African American Culture in Europe explores the legacy of African Americans in Paris.
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The 1619 Project’s lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States, thoughtfully rendered by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones and Newbery honor-winning author Ren�e Watson. A young student receives a family tree assignment in school, but she can only trace back three generations. Grandma gathers the whole family, and the student learns that 400...
15) Malcolm X
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Examines the unanswered questions surrounding the murder of Malcolm X.
17) Dear yesteryear
Author
Pub. Date
c2023.
Description
"Drawing from her Instagram-based archival image repository, a historical curator and researcher presents this stunning picture book showcasing everyday African Americans from the late 1800s and early 1900s who made the present possible"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Among these biographies, readers will find aviators and artists, politicians and pop stars, athletes and activists. The exceptional men featured include artist Aaron Douglas, civil rights leader John Lewis, dancer Alvin Ailey, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux, musician Prince, photographer Gordon Parks, tennis champion Arthur Ashe, and writer James Baldwin. The legends in this book span centuries and continents, but what they have in common is that each one...
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