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Freedom Summer
by Wiles, Deborah
Best friends, one black one white, experience the negatives of segregation during summer vacation when they are prohibited from doing what they love like swimming, and eating together.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Late Elementary: 4-6, Middle School
- Book Type Fiction
- Award Coretta Scott King Award
- Publisher Atheneum, 2001, New York, NY
Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Freedman, Russell
Freedman draws on the best of the personal stories and historical accounts of the leaders and ordinary heroes of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to provide a dramatic overview of the how the 381-day resistance to segregated buses spearheaded the civil rights movement.
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Topics
African American History,
20th-Century History - Age Groups Late Elementary: 4-6, Middle School
- Book Type Nonfiction
- Award
- Publisher Holiday House, 2008, New York, NY
Galimoto
by Williams, Karen Lynn
The story of a young boys persistence in creating his own toy vehicle, or galimoto.
- Topic African American History
- Age Group Early Elementary: K-3
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Harper Collins, 1991, New York, NY
George Washington Carver
by Lynea Bowdish
Presents a brief look at the life of George Washington Carver
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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 Scholastic, Inc., 2004, New York, NY
Glory Field, The
by Myers, Walter Dean
Novel traces a family's ongoing quest for equality throughout many generations a societal changes.
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Topics
African American History,
18th-Century History,
19th-Century History,
20th-Century History - Age Group High School
- Book Type Fiction
- Award
- Publisher Scholastic, 1994, 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.
