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Summary: "Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 WALWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: Recounts George W. De Long's expedition to reach the North Pole.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910 WALWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: "In October 1919, a group of black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob, and others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Up stepped Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved. Could he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2021