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3) Glory be
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
Author
Language
English
Description
In 1945, thirteen-year-old Levi is sent to find the father he has not seen in three years, going from Chicago, to segregated North Carolina, and finally to Pendleton, Oregon, where he learns that his father's unit, the all-Black 555th paratrooper battalion, will never see combat but finally has a mission. Includes historical notes.
8) New shoes
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this historical fiction picture book, Ella Mae and her cousin Charlotte, both African American, start their own shoe store when they learn that they cannot try on shoes at the shoe store"--
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book."
10) Meet Miss Fancy
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old African American boy wants to welcome the circus elephant named Miss Fancy to her new home in a nearby park, but he is disappointed to see a sign: "No Colored Allowed".
12) Sources of light
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
233 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Samantha and her mother move to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962 after her father is killed in Vietnam, and during the year they spend there Sam encounters both love and hate as she learns about photography from a new friend of her mother's and witnesses the prejudice and violence of the segregationists of the South.
Author
Publisher
Amistad
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An eight-year-old girl accompanies her grandmother on a singing tour of the segregated South, both of them knowing that Grandmama's songs have the power to bring people together.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.
Author
Series
Scraps of time volume 1
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Gee recalls for her grandchildren what happened in 1960 in Nashville, Tennessee, when she, aged ten, passed out flyers while her cousin and other adults held sit-ins at restaurants and lunch counters to protest segregation.
16) A bus of our own
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman and Company
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
30 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Although she really wants to go to school, walking the five miles is very difficult for Mabel Jean and the other black children, so she tries to find a way to get a bus for them the same as the white children have. Based on real events in Mississippi.
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
141 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenager Biddy Owens' 1948 journal about working for the Birmingham Black Barons includes the games and the players, racism the team faces from New Orleans to Chicago, and his family's resistance to his becoming a professional baseball player. Includes a historical note about the evolution of the Negro Leagues.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In the segregated south of Kentucky in 1953, twelve-year-olds Callie, who is black, and Wendell, who is white, are brought together by an old dog that is clearly seeking something or someone, but they not only face prejudice, they find trouble at a haunted cabin in the woods.
20) Night on fire
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--
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