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Juneteenth
Par Drew Nelson. 2021
June 19th, 1865, began as another hot day in Texas. Enslaved African Americans worked in fields, in barns, and in…
the homes of the white people who owned them. Then a message arrived. Freedom! Slavery had ended! The Civil War had actually ended in April. It took two months for word to reach Texas. Still the joy of that amazing day has never been forgotten. Every year, people all over the United States come together on June 19th to celebrate the end of slavery. Join in the celebration of Juneteenth, a day to remember and honor freedom for all peopleMore than petticoats: Remarkable California women (More than Petticoats Series)
Par Erin H. Turner. 1999
Ten women, each with California ties and born before 1900, who are examples of women performing work and supporting causes…
that were not typical for women of the day, are given short historical biographies. Individual chapters cover a diverse group including early film actress Mary Pickford, Florence Hutchings for whom Mount Florence in Yosemite National Park is named, and Tye Leung Schulze, the first Chinese-American woman to vote in an election42 is not just a number: the odyssey of Jackie Robinson, American hero
Par Doreen Rappaport. 2017
Recounts the life and legacy of Jackie Robinson (1919-1972), the man who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball…
and played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He was named Rookie of the Year, National League MVP, World Series champ, and became an American hero. For grades 5-8. 2017Maya Lin: thinking with her hands
Par Susan Goldman Rubin. 2017
A short biography of Maya Lin, the architect and artist whose design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial won a competition…
while she was a senior at Yale University. She later designed the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Langston Hughes Library in Tennessee. For grades 4-7. 2017Twelve days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
Par Larry Dane Brimner. 2017
Recounts the twelve days in May, 1961, when thirteen black and white Freedom Riders traveled by bus from Washington, D.…
C., into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Their peaceful protest was met by violence. Violence. For grades 5-8. 2017Martin rising: requiem for a King
Par Andrea Davis Pinkney, Brian Pinkney. 2018
The history of the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). Recounts the original campaign in the…
early 1900s to build a national museum honoring the experiences and contributions of African Americans. Also explores the museum's historical and modern-day exhibits. For grades 5-8. 2016March forward, girl: from young warrior to Little Rock Nine
Par Melba Pattillo Beals, Frank Morrison. 2018
Childhood memoir of growing up in the hostile Jim Crow South that led to Beals's activism and desire for equality.…
She eventually volunteered to be one of nine black students to enroll in Little Rock's all-white Central High School in 1957. Violence and some strong language. For grades 5-8. 2018All that trash: the story of the 1987 Garbage Barge and our problem with stuff
Par Meghan McCarthy. 2018
Recounts the true story of a garbage barge that didn't have a place to dock for months, because no state…
or government wanted to take New York's trash. This newsworthy event helped usher in the recycling movement. For grades K-3. 2018Letters of Note: New York City (Letters of Note)
Par Shaun Usher. 2021
An illuminating and energetic collection of letters about New York City curated by the founder of the globally popular Letters…
of Note website. The first volume in the bestselling Letters of Note series was a collection of hundreds of the world's most entertaining, inspiring, and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name--an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heartbreaking suicide letter, to Queen Elizabeth II's recipe for drop scones sent to President Eisenhower; from the first recorded use of the expression 'OMG' in a letter to Winston Churchill, to Gandhi's appeal for calm to Hitler; and from Iggy Pop's beautiful letter of advice to a troubled young fan, to Leonardo da Vinci's remarkable job application letter. Now, the curator of Letters of Note, Shaun Usher, gives us wonderful new volumes featuring letters organized around a universal theme. In this volume, Shaun Usher collects letters about New York City. Contributors to be confirmed.Forgotten bones: uncovering a slave cemetery
Par Lois Miner Huey. 2016
Pasando páginas: la historia de mi vida
Par Lulu Delacre, Sonia Sotomayor. 2018
La primera latina en la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, Sonia Sotomayor recuerda la influencia formativa de los libros…
en su vida. Ella explora cómo su amor por la literatura le proporcionó la inspiración para realizar sus sueños. Para grados 2-4Hammering for freedom: the William Lewis story (New Voices Ser.)
Par John Holyfield, Rita Lorraine Hubbard. 2018
Tells the story of William "Bill" Lewis, who was born into slavery on a Tennessee plantation in 1810 and became…
a hard-working blacksmith who slowly saved his money to buy his family's freedom. For grades K-3. 2018The capture of Black Bart: gentleman bandit of the Old West
Par Norman H. Finkelstein. 2019
Recounts the eight-year cat-and-mouse game in the late nineteenth century between Black Bart, an Old West stagecoach robber, and James…
B. Hume, Wells Fargo's chief detective. Famous for his polite treatment of stagecoach passengers, Bart also surprised the public with his poetry. For grades 4-7 and older readers. 2018Unpunished murder: massacre at Colfax and the quest for justice
Par Lawrence Goldstone. 2018
Recounts the Easter Sunday 1873 slaughter of more than one hundred unarmed African Americans by white supremacists in Louisiana--none of…
whom was convicted. Follows the opinion issued by the Supreme Court allowing post-slavery discrimination that continues to this day. Some violence. For senior high and older readers. 2018What do you do with a voice like that?: the story of extraordinary congresswoman Barbara Jordan
Par Chris Barton, Ekua Holmes. 2018
A rift in the Earth: art, memory, and the fight for a Vietnam War memorial
Par James Reston Jr.. 2017
Army veteran and author of The Conviction of Richard Nixon (DB 68946) presents the history of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.…
Covers the fights over the creation of a memorial, the selection and implementation of the winning design, and his own reflections on the conflicts. 2017A computer called Katherine: how Katherine Johnson helped put America on the moon
Par Suzanne Slade, Veronica Miller Jamison. 2019
The story of pioneering African American mathematician Katherine Johnson, who performed calculations vital to America's first manned space flight, its…
first manned orbit of Earth, and the first trip to the moon. For grades K-3. 2019When angels sing: the story of rock legend Carlos Santana
Par Michael James Mahin, Jose Ramirez. 2018
Chronicles the life and accomplishments of rock legend Carlos Santana, who created a unique sound that fused American blues, rock,…
and jazz traditions with the sound of Latin American and African music. For grades K-3. 20181919: the year that changed America
Par Martin W. Sandler. 2019
Explores the major movements of 1919 that changed the country just as World War I came to an end. Covers…
the rise of women's suffrage, the violence of the Red Summer and the Red Scare, and Prohibition. For grades 6-9. 2019