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(0)E. B Lewis
Author
Language
English
Description
One hundred years before Rosa Parks took her stand, Elizabeth "Lizzie" Jennings tried to board a streetcar in New York City on her way to church. Though there were plenty of empty seats, she was denied entry, assaulted, and threatened all because of her race -- even though New York was a free state at that time. Lizzie decided to fight back. She told her story, took her case to court -- where future president Chester Arthur represented her -- and...
4) The walk
Author
Language
English
Description
As a little girl accompanies her grandma on a walk to the polling station, members of their community join and the grandmother explains the importance of their journey.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A Tanzanian boy saves his coins to buy a bicycle so that he can help his parents carry goods to market, but then he discovers that in spite of all he has saved, he still does not have enough money
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This visually stunning portrait of Black photographer Roy DeCarava, a child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator of Langston Hughes, takes readers through 1940s Harlem where beauty is everywhere as he immortalizes and documents the lives of ordinary Black people. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations."--
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Critically acclaimed author Jabari Asim and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator E.B. Lewis give readers a fascinating glimpse into the boyhood of Civil Rights leader John Lewis. John wants to be a preacher when he grows up a leader whose words stir hearts to change, minds to think, and bodies to take action. But why wait? When John is put in charge of the family farm's flock of chickens, he discovers that they make a wonderful congregation! So he...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A runaway slave makes a daring escape to freedom with the help of his faithful hunting dog, Zeus. Based on the true story of James Smith's journey from Virginia to Ohio in the mid-1800s
15) Trouper
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Trooper, a three-legged dog, remembers his life as a stray, before he was adopted.
16) Down the road
Author
Publisher
Browndeer Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 25 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Hetty is very careful with the eggs she has bought on her very first trip to the store, but she runs into trouble when she stops to pick apples
Author
Publisher
Gulliver Books/Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2005.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A young boy who loves to dance listens as his father retells the story of the night he was born, which coincided with the opening of the Savoy Ballroom in Harlem.