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Author
Series
Publisher
Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
"It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page 4 of cover
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Contains the text of the famous Broadway drama that later became a film and then a prize-winning musical. Plates feature the cast of the 1959 production (Ruby Dee, Glynn Turman, Sidney Poitier, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett, John Fiedler, and others).
5) Jubilee
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
"Classic and true story of Vyry; the child of a white plantation owner and his black mistress, a southern Civil War heroine to rival Scarlett O'Hara. Vyry bears witness to the South's antebellum opulence and to its brutality, its wartime ruin, and the promises of Reconstruction."--Back cover.
Language
English
Description
"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
7) Remembering slavery: African Americans talk about their personal experiences of slavery and freedom
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
The history of slavery is central to understanding the history of the United States. Slavery and the Making of America offers a richly illustrated, vividly written history that illuminates the human side of this inhumane institution, presenting it largely through stories of the slaves themselves. Readers will discover a wide ranging and sharply nuanced look at American slavery, from the first Africans brought to British colonies in the early seventeenth...
9) Homegoing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...
Publisher
One World
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
In nearly 700 entries, this set documents the full range of the African American experience during the period from the arrival of the first slave ship to the death of Frederick Douglass, and shows how all aspects of American culture, history, and national identity have been profoundly influenced by the experience of African Americans.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
A history of the African-American struggle for freedom and equality, beginning with the capture of Africans in 1619, continuing through the American Revolution, the Civil War, and into contemporary times.
Author
Publisher
Black Dog & Leventhal
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
"Critically acclaimed writer Jabari Asim guides readers ages 9-12 through the history of African Americans, from the slave trade to the Black Lives Matter movement, in the latest volume in Black Dog's bestselling, award-winning Child's Introduction series. This illustrated introduction to African American history goes beyond what's taught in the classroom giving young readers a more comprehensive look at this timely and important topic. Author Jabari...
Series
Publisher
Discovery Enterprises
Pub. Date
[1997]
Lexile measure
1220L
Language
English
Description
Presents short readings from primary and other sources related to the Great Migration, when more than six million African-Americans migrated from the American South to the North, between 1910 and 1970.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From acclaimed columnist and political commentator Michael Harriot, a searingly smart and bitingly hilarious retelling of American history that corrects the record and showcases the perspectives and experiences of Black Americans. America's backstory is a whitewashed mythology implanted in our collective memory. It is the story of the pilgrims on the Mayflower building a new nation. It is George Washington's cherry tree and Abraham Lincoln's log...