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Simon B. Rhymin' volume 2
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
233 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Description
When Simon B. Rhymin' and his crew notice inequality in their school and neighborhood, they use rhymes to help bring their community together.--
4) Something must be done about Prince Edward County: a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle
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Description
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
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Formats
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"It's hard to balance protecting your child's innocence with preparing them for the realities of Black life. When--and how--do you approach racism with your children? How do you protect their physical and mental health while also preparing them for a country full of systemic racism? On the heels of 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?' and 'Multiplication Is for White People' comes a parenting book specifically for parents...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xxx, 342 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education The struggle to desegregate America's schools was a grassroots movement, and young women were its vanguard. In the late 1940s, parents began to file desegregation lawsuits with their daughters, forcing Thurgood Marshall and other civil rights lawyers to take up the issue and bring it to the Supreme Court. After the Brown v. Board...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Description
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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