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1) Run
Author
Series
Run (John Lewis) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling, graphic novel series March comes the continuation of the life story of John Lewis and the struggles seen across the United States after the Civil Rights Movement. For John Lewis, the Civil Rights Movement as he knew it ended with the signing of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, but his struggle in the following years echo many of the same questions of civil rights and equality that are being asked today. The movement...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
"Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, David Remnick demonstrates how a rootless, unaccomplished, and confused young man created himself first as a community organizer in Chicago, then as a Harvard Law School graduate, and finally as President of the United States. By looking at Obama's political rise through the prism of our racial history, Remnick gives us...
5) Barack
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A picture book biography of African-American senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Celebrating ingenuity and dreaming big, this inspirational story, featuring Jabari Asims stirring prose and E. B. Lewiss stunning, light-filled impressionistic watercolor paintings, includes an authors note about John Lewis, who grew up to be a member of the Freedom Riders, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and demonstrator on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. John Lewis is now a Georgia congressman, who is still...
9) March
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
volumes : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This graphic novel is a first-hand account of Congressman John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book one spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
10) Barack Obama
Series
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2008], c2005
Physical Desc
1 DVD (47 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow Obama through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey towards the 2008 Democratic Convention.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
168 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is the children's biography about the forty-fourth president of the United States. Containing up-to-the-minute information, including President Obama's November victory.
12) Barack Obama
Series
Publisher
A & E Television Networks
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
Edition
[Inaugural ed.]; full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (47 min.) : sd., col., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follow Obama from his early childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, through his teenage struggles for self-identity, his student days at Columbia University and Harvard Law School, and his political career in Chicago. Go behind the scenes of Obama's extraordinarily successful presidential campaign and his journey to the 2008 Democratic Convention, and finally his election as president.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Ever since Barack Obama was young, Hope has lived inside him. From the beaches of Hawaii to the streets of Chicago, from the jungles of Indonesia to the plains of Kenya, he has held on to Hope. Even as a boy, Barack knew he wasn't quite like anybody else, but through his journeys he found the ability to listen to Hope and become what he was meant to be: a bridge to bring people together."--http://www.booksinprint.com.
Author
Series
Publisher
Child's World
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A thorough, illustrated biography discussing the childhood, career, family, and election of Barack Obama, forty-fourth president of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxiv, 226 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Minority Leader is a guide to harnessing the strengths of being an outsider by Stacey Abrams, slated to become the first black female governor in the U.S. Networking, persistence, and hard work are the crucial ingredients to advancing a career, but for people like Stacey Abrams, and many in the New American Majority, it takes more than that to get ahead. Stacey, who grew up in a working poor family in Gulfport, Mississippi, rose from humble roots...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
40 pages
Language
English
Description
"A picture biography of educator and politician Shirley Chisholm, who in 1968 was the first Black woman elected to Congress and in 1972 was the first Black candidate from a major political party (the Democratic party) to run for the United States presidency. An afterword with additional information, photographs, and source lists are included"--
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Rev. and expanded
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to hold the office"--Provided by publisher.
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