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Language
English
Description
This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the life of nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks who became the youngest known child to be arrested for picketing against Birmingham segregation practices in 1963.
Author
Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
30 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
An African American grandmother relates family and cultural history to her grandson in their Queens, New York, apartment as she tells of growing up in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. Includes a recipe and the words to Amazing Grace.
Author
Publisher
All Points Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan members. Yet due to reluctant witnesses, a lack of physical...
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