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Antislavery movements Civil rights movements United States History 20th century Fugitive slaves Hispanic Americans Civil rights Hispanic Americans Education JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States / Hispanic & Latino JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Issues / Prejudice & Racism Mendez, Sylvia 1936- Childhood and youth Underground RailroadFilter By Series
What was ...?McDonough, Yona Zeldis.
Summary: "No one knows where the term Underground Railroad came from--there were no trains or tracks, only "conductors" who helped escaping slaves to freedom. Including real stories about "passengers" on the "Railroad," this book chronicles slaves' close calls with bounty hunters, exhausting struggles on the road, and what they sacrificed for freedom. With black-and-white illustrations throughout and a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MCDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk His What McDonoughWoodson, Jacqueline.
Summary: "Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WOOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 921 WOOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB WOODSON WOOTonatiuh, Duncan.
Summary: "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 inCalifornia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2014