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64) Medgar Evers
Author
Series
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography on Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist and martyr from Mississippi.
Author
Publisher
Kingfisher
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A collection of brief profiles and pictures of nearly thirty saints, descriptions of different kinds of angels, profiles of three specific angels, and a calendar of feast days.
What is a saint? -- Holy family -- Followers of Christ -- Gospel writers -- Martyrs -- Great thinkers and evangelists -- Peace and healing -- Angels -- Archangels.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
" On October 14, 1998, five thousand people gathered on the steps of the U.S. Capitol to mourn the death of Matthew Shepard, a gay college student who had been murdered in Wyoming eight days earlier. Politicians and celebrities addressed the crowd and the televised national audience to share their grief with the country. Never before had a gay citizen's murder elicited such widespread outrage or concern from straight Americans. In Dying to Be Normal,...
70) The messenger
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Indoctrinated in an Iraqi refugee camp, Daria is sent to the United States on a terrorist mission, while discredited scientist Sam Watterman takes on a government investigation of a threat that puts millions of Americans in peril.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The United States has never existed without a Black Samson. Before Harriet Tubman or Martin Luther King were identified with Moses, African Americans linked those who challenged racial oppression in America with Samson. In Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon, Nyasha Junior and Jeremy Schipper investigate legal documents, narratives by enslaved persons, speeches, sermons, periodicals, poetry, fiction, and visual arts to tell the unlikely...
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a profound impact on U.S. society, but failed to break white supremacy. The symbol of the movement, Martin Luther King Jr., soared so high that he tends to overwhelm anything associated with him. Yet the tradition...
Author
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Readers take a colorful trip into the past to meet three African American who left indelible marks on U.S. history. Crispus Attucks was considered a martyr after his death at the Boston Massacre. Formerly enslaved Frederick Douglass became one of the most outspoken proponents of abolition and equal rights for African Americans. Harriet Tubman, also formerly enslaved, became perhaps the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. Together, the...