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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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The Civil Rights Movement was a time of drastic change in America. From the end of Reconstruction, when blacks were denied their rights in the South, through the Montgomery bus boycott and Dr. Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, to the election of the first black president of the United States, witness the events that forever changed the way we look at race. Additional features include detailed captions and sidebars, critical-thinking questions,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 3
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The first African men, women, and children in colonial America did not arrive with dreams of freedom or hopes of a new, better life. They arrived after a torturous 90-day journey called the Middle Passage. And they arrived as slaves. Since that time, African-Americans have suffered, triumphed, despaired, and dreamed. Through U.S. history, nowhere are the hopes and fears of the black experience expressed more convincingly than on the faces of black...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 5
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"A detailed and thought-provoking account of segregation" including photos and first-person stories illustrating life in the Jim Crow era (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
Told through unforgettable first-person accounts, photographs, and other primary sources, this book is an overview of racial segregation and early civil rights efforts in the United States from the 1890s to 1954, a period known as the Jim Crow years. Multiple perspectives...
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"Racial trauma can reverberate for generations, and lead to anxiety, irritability, anger, rage, depression, low self-esteem, shame, and guilt. Teens are especially vulnerable to racial trauma, as they are still developing a sense of self and identity. The Racial Trauma Handbook for Teens provides readers with evidence-based cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to heal the wounds of personal and intergenerational trauma, increase self-awareness,...
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 3
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A collection of personal reflections, stories and poems of 10 well-known children's authors, who were themselves young people in 1954 when the Supreme Court handed down the decision to desegregate public schools. Their varied experiences and viewpoints offer a window to that period in our history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 8
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Based on the author's viral video series and adapted for younger audiences, an introduction to systemic racism and racist behavior offers safe, judgment-free answers to common questions about uncomfortable subjects, from white privilege to how to disruptcommunity racism.
Based on the author's viral video series and adapted for younger audiences, an introduction to systemic racism and racist behavior offers safe, judgment-free answers to common questions...
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