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Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
950L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"The life of Lilly Ann Granderson, an enslaved teacher who strongly believed in the power of education and risked her life to teach others during slavery. Includes afterword and sources"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Booker T. Washington has been described as the most famous and influential black man in the United States between 1895 and 1915. Born into slavery, his childhood was marked by poverty and hard labor. This compelling volume traces Washington's life from those early years, through his determined struggle to achieve an education, to his rise as an influential black leader and his sometimes-controversial ideas about how blacks should work to achieve...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
820L
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the man who wrote the first U.S. dictionary traces his youth as a bookish Connecticut farm boy and his twenty-year effort to write the all-American dictionary that was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps, portraits ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and times of the educational leader and founder of the Tuskegee Institute, who became a leading spokesman for the African American community.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
930L
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
African American educator, author, speaker, and advisor to presidents of the United States, Booker Taliaferro Washington was the leading voice of former slaves and their descendants during the late 1800s. As part of the last generation of leaders born into slavery, Booker believed that blacks could better progress in society through education and entrepreneurship, rather than trying to directly challenge the Jim Crow segregation.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
[Library ed.].
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life of Booker T. Washington, a slave freed after the Civil War who became a leading educator of African Americans and whose Tuskegee Institute taught farming, carpentry, sewing, and other skills.
11) As good as anybody: Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel's amazing march toward freedom
Author
Publisher
Dragonfly Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
First Dragonfly books edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Briefly describes the racial discrimination and bigotry encountered by Martin Luther King Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel.