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When a formerly segregated North Carolina town hires its first African-American teacher in 1969, two girls--one black, one white--confront the prejudice that challenges their friendship. Includes endnote explaining that the roots of the book are in the author's connection to just such a teacher.
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Holiday House
Pub. Date
2016.
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134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Traces the stories of advocates and activists who risked danger and hardship to uphold the 1954 desegregation ruling by the Supreme Court, sharing additional information on how the NAACP strategized its responses to period racism.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
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Most people think that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 meant that schools were integrated with deliberate speed. But the children of Prince Edward County located in Farmville, Virginia, who were prohibited from attending formal schools for five years knew differently, including Yolanda. Told by Yolanda Gladden herself, cowritten by Dr. Tamara Pizzoli and with illustrations by Keisha Morris, When the Schools Shut Down is a true account...
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2016.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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Shares the story of Sarah Roberts and her 1847 case petitioning that she be allowed to attend a white school, explaining how her heroic efforts established key precedents and paved the way for civil rights advancements.
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Tricycle Press
Pub. Date
c2011
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vii, 151 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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At the start of World War II, Japanese-American third-grader Aki and her family are sent to an internment camp in Poston, Arizona, while Mexican-American third-grader Sylvia's family leases their Orange County, California, farm and begins a fight to stop school segregation.
7) Ruby Bridges
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Philomel
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
50 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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"A chapter book biography of Ruby Bridges, part of the She Persisted series"--
8) The girl from the tar paper school: Barbara Rose Johns and the advent of the civil rights movement
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Describes the peaceful protest organized by teenager Barbara Rose Johns in order to secure a permanent building for her segregated high school in Virginia in 1951, and explains how her actions helped fuel the civil rights movement.
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Paramount
Pub. Date
2014, 1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (191 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Dramatizes the events leading from a school bus controversy in Clarendon County, South Carolina to the landmark Supreme Court ruling against school segregation in Brown vs. The Board of Education in 1954.
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Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xii, 275 pages ; 22 cm
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"In August of 1966, Jim Grimsley entered the sixth grade in the same public school he had attended for the five previous years in his small eastern North Carolina hometown. But he knew that the first day of this school year was going to be different: for the first time he'd be in a classroom with black children ... Now, over forty years later, Grimsley ... revisits that school and those times, remembering his personal reaction to his first real exposure...
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"Since 1896, in the landmark outcome of Plessy v. Ferguson, the doctrine of "separate but equal" had been considered acceptable under the United States Constitution. African American and white populations were thus segregated, attending different schools, living in different neighborhoods, and even drinking from different water fountains -- so long as the separated facilities were deemed of comparable quality. However, as African Americans found themselves...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"In 1954, after the passing of Brown v Board, one county in southern Virginia chose to close its public schools rather than integrate. Those public schools stayed closed for five years. This was the reality of the people of Prince Edward County. When theaffluent white population of Prince Edward County built a private school--for white children only--they left Black children and their families with very few options. Some Black children were home schooled...
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