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Bill Pickett: Rodeo-Ridin’ Cowboy
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
No matter how you feel about rodeo, it's hard not to admire Pickett, who was known to bring an unruly steer to its knees by taking a bite out of the animal's upper lip
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Topics
African American History,
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Group Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1996, New York, NY
Brown v. Board of Education
by Tackach, James
Accounts of African-American's civil rights struggle from the Civil War to present.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Group High School
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Lucent Books, 1998, San Diego, CA
Bus of Our Own, A
by Evans, Freddi Williams
A story based on real events of a community that works together to gain civil rights.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Late Elementary: 4-6, Middle School
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Albert Whitman, 2001, Morton Grove, Illinois, IL
Captain of the Planter: the story of Robert Smalls
by Sterling, Dorothy
The story of Robert Smalls who began life as a slave, captained a ship that took his family to freedom, and later became Congressman who worked during the Reconstruction period.
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Topics
African American History,
19th-Century History - Age Groups Middle School, High School
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Double Day and Co., 1958, Garden City, NY
Dear Austin: Letters from the Underground Railroad
by Elvira Woodruff
The story of two boys growing up in Pennsylvania during 1853, where they encounter slave traders, Harriet Tubman, and the Underground Railroad.
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Topics
African American History,
19th-Century History - Age Group Late Elementary: 4-6
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Yearling, 1998, New York, NY
Award Key
- Caldecott Medal
- Most distinguished American picture book for children (annually).
- Newberry Medal
- Most distinguished contribution to American literature for children (annually).
- Coretta Scott King Award
- Distinguished books by authors and illustrators of African descent which promote an understanding and appreciation of the American dream (annually).
- Golden Kite Award
- Outstanding examples of text, illustration, fiction and nonfiction (four awards annually).
- Scott O'Dell Historical Fiction Award
- Outstanding work of historical fiction published by a U.S. publisher set in the New World.
