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1) Dolores
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dolores Huerta is among the most important, yet least known, activists in American history. An equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chavez, her enormous contributions have gone largely unrecognized. Dolores tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice, becoming one of the most defiant feminists of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Reading Street volume Grade 5
Publisher
Scott Foresman
Pub. Date
[20--?]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
"In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salaries--and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
Fannie Sellins (1872?1919) lived during the Gilded Age of American Industrialization, when the Carnegies and Morgans wore jewels while their laborers wore rags. Fannie dreamed that America could achieve its ideals of equality and justice for all, and she sacrificed her life to help that dream come true. Fannie became a union activist, helping to create St. Louis, Missouri, Local 67 of the United Garment Workers of America. She traveled the nation...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 990L
Language
English
Description
The story of Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who was essential in the fight to create child labor laws. Well into her sixties, Mother Jones had finally had enough of children working long hours in dangerous factory jobs, and decided she was going to do something about it. The powerful protests she organized earned her the name "the most dangerous woman in America." And in the Children's Crusade of 1903, she lead one hundred boys and girls on a glorious...
Author
Publisher
Wings Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Language
English
Description
Tells how Emma Tenayuca, dismayed by the poverty and injustice she sees around her in Texas in the 1920s and 1930s, tries to help those in need and grows up to become the leader of a successful strike by pecan shellers.
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 520L
Language
English
Description
Shares the story of how teacher Dolores Huerta came to fight for the rights of her community's farm workers--who were poorly paid and worked under dangerous conditions--to ensure fair and safe working conditions for the migrant workers.