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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Fifty years after winning the Pulitzer Prize, To Kill a Mockingbird remains a beloved best seller and quite possibly the most influential American novel of the 20th century. Mary McDonagh Murphy's Hey, Boo explores the To Kill a Mockingbird phenomenon and unravels some of the mysteries surrounding Harper Lee, including why she never published again. It also brings to light the context and history of the novel's Deep South setting and the social changes...
362) Rosa Parks
Author
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief biography of the African American who, in refusing to obey a discriminatory rule about bus seating, set off both the Montgomery Bus Boycott and a movement that changed the nation's laws.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1931, nine teenagers were arrested as they traveled on a train through Scottsboro, Alabama. The youngest was thirteen, and all had been hoping to find something better at the end of their journey. But they never arrived. Instead, two white women falsely accused them of rape. The effects were catastrophic for the young men, who came to be known as the Scottsboro Boys. Being accused of raping a white woman in the Jim Crow south almost certainly meant...
364) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A brief biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The adorable mini-pigs and Instagram sensations Prissy and Pop star in their very own picture book! All Pop wants to do is go to the beach. But Prissy has other plans. After a trip to the garden, a stop at the market, and a zip through the playground, will silly Pop ever get his wish? Join these two little piggies on a fun-filled adventure in this full-color photographic picture book.
367) The Scottsboro Boys
Author
Pub. Date
[1994]
Description
Examination of the trial of nine black youths who were charged with the assault of two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931.
Author
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"Moore's unwavering stand against the removal of the Ten Commandments monument from Alabama's state Judicial Building rotunda, which resulted in his removal from the highest judicial office in Alabama, received international attention. Moore, who has filed amicus briefs in the two upcoming Ten Commandments cases before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 2, 2005, has said that one must acknowledge God to understand both the Alabama and United States Constitutions,...
369) Quiň fue Rosa Parks?
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama, a seemingly small act that triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
370) Rosa Parks
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents a brief biography of Rosa Parks, who was a champion for African American rights.
372) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Rosa Parks is best known as the woman who would not move to the back of the bus. Thru her actions of protest she sparked a Civil Rights movement to end segreation in the United States.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Description
Product Description: What became known as the Tuskegee Experience began in 1931 with a letter from the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People to the War Department asking that blacks be allowed to join the military. The efforts of early African American aviators, the struggle of organizations and individuals against the military's segregation policies, and the hard work of thousands of young men and women, military...
374) Because Claudette
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A picture book biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action"--
Author
Series
Detective Cooper Devereaux thrillers volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"It's a desperate race against the clock. Detective Demonbruen and his temporary partner, Jan Loflin, seek a missing six-year-old foster child. Demonbruen, himself a survivor of the foster system, is haunted by his own brutal childhood and the death of his father. He labors under a cloud of suspicion, determined to find the missing boy before it's too late. But are his motives really pure? His record is a minefield of red flags and question marks:...
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents an account of the boycott of city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 by African-Americans who were protesting a policy that required African-Americans to sit in the back of a bus, or give up their seats for white people.
378) Captain Phillips
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
379) Meet Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book introduces the life of Rosa Parks, who stood up for her rights as an African American when she refused to give up her seat on a bus.
