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2) Hershey
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"What a sweet treat! This title is packed with the history of The Hersey Company through narrative nonfiction, informative sidebars, Fun Facts, and more."
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Contains an extensive view of suffrage from the Founding Fathers to the 19th Amendment to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to today's voter suppression controversies, and explains the barriers people of color, Indigenous people, and immigrants face. -- amazon.com.
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Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
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"Who transformed George Washington's demoralized troops at Valley Forge into a fighting force that defeated an empire? Who cracked Germany's Enigma code and shortened World War II? Who successfully lobbied the US Congress to outlaw child labor? And who organized the 1963 March on Washington? Ls, Gs, Bs, and Ts, that's who .. This up-to-date history includes the landmark Supreme Court decision making marriage equality the law of the land. Twenty-one...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"This ... young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience. When America achieves milestones of progress toward full and equal black participation in democracy, the systemic response is a consistent racist backlash that rolls back those wins. We Are Not Yet Equal examines five of these moments: The end of the Civil War and Reconstruction was greeted with Jim Crow laws; the promise of new opportunities in the North during the Great Migration...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Offers insight into the camping trip that President Theodore Roosevelt and naturalist John Muir took to the redwoods of Yosemite in 1903, during which the two men had experiences and conversations that eventually contributed to the establishment of national parks in the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, police arrived at the Stonewall Inn's doors and yelled, "Police! We're taking the place!" But the people in this New York City neighborhood bar, members of the LGBTQ community, were tired of being harassed. They rebelled in the streets, turning one moment into a civil rights movement and launching the fight for equality among LGBTQ people in the United States." -- Amazon.com.
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Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Description
No discussion of the civil rights movement of the 1960s is complete without a close look at Martin Luther King Jr. This book is an invaluable source of biographical information that uses King's own immensely powerful words to tell the story of his life and the fight for equality. The Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the Civil Rights Act are just some historic events described. Readers will find that King's words still resonate...
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Language
English
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"America Redux explores the themes that create our shared sense of American identity and interrogates the myths we've been telling ourselves for centuries. With iconic American catchphrases as chapter titles, these twenty-one visual stories illuminate the astonishing, unexpected, sometimes darker sides of history that reverberate in our society to this very day--from the role of celebrity in immigration policy to the influence of one small group of...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Presents the history of the Civilian Conservation Corps, a program that employed impoverished young men during the Great Depression to build and improve hundreds of state and national parks, plant trees, and restore agricultural land.
19) Presidents
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Offers information about America's most influential political office and details on the men who have filled it.