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1) Run: Book 1
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Series
Run (John Lewis) volume 1
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"To John Lewis, the civil rights movement came to an end with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965. But that was after more than five years as one of the preeminent figures of the movement, leading sit-in protests and fighting segregation on interstate busways as an original Freedom Rider. It was after becoming chairman of SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and being the youngest speaker at the March on Washington. It was...
Author
Series
March volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"March is a vivid first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement."--Back cover flap.
This graphic novel presents the life of Georgia congressman John Lewis, focusing on his youth in rural Alabama, his meeting with...
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Series
Language
English
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"Shirley Chisholm was the first Black woman elected to the United States Congress, where she served for seven terms. She worked to improve the lives of children in need and was an outspoken champion of women's rights. In 1972, she was the first Black person ever to seek the nomination of President of the United States from a major party. This is her story." --Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement. His commitment to justice and nonviolence has taken him from an Alabama sharecropper's farm to the halls of Congress, from a segregated schoolroom to the 1963 March on Washington, and from receiving beatings from state troopers to receiving the Medal of Freedom from the first African-American president.Now, to share his remarkable story with
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Legend has it that Davy Crockett, at the age of three, wrestled a bear. It's also been said that he could smile a raccoon out of a tree. As with most legends, this one was based in some truth. Davy Crockett was a great frontiersman and hunter of bears. This illustrated volume takes a look at the man and how the legend was made. Comic book style illustrations depict Crockett's real and exaggerated exploits. Before they know it, readers will want to...
6) Bernie
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Language
English
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Sanders' upbringing in a struggling working-class family in a hardscrabble section of Brooklyn during the 1950s taught him that poverty is a disease, one that affects us all. Incredibly, the lessons he learned back then are revolutionizing the political process this year, marking the resurgence of political progressivism on the left at the same time as the two-party system seems to be on the way out. From McGovern's 1972 loss to Nixon to the Occupy...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Graphic novels aren't just for superheroes! Patrick Henry has been plucked from history books and his life and accomplishments have been depicted in informative nonfiction graphic novels. The subject's birth, childhood, education, and community service have been skillfully told with detailed art. Further reading lists, timelines, glossaries, and indexes make these titles useful in classroom discussion.
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Series
March volume 3
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Welcome to the stunning conclusion of the award-winning and best-selling MARCH trilogy. Congressman John Lewis, an American icon and one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, joins co-writer Andrew Aydin and artist Nate Powell to bring the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world.
Author
Series
March volume 2
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
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Tales of the talented tenth volume no. 3
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of Robert Smalls, the enslaved African, who pulled off one of the most daring and largest heists of the Civil War. Learn how Robert earns a job working for the C.S.S. Planter, escapes to freedom, goes on to become a first-generation Black politician, and makes history by writing and leading the passage of legislation that led to the United States' first free and compulsory public school system. -- adapted from Amazon.com.
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