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A fictionalized account of Bill "Doc" Key, a former slave who became a veterinarian, trained his horse, Jim Key, to recognize letters and numbers and to perform in skits around the country, and moved the nation toward a belief in treating animals humanely. Includes an author's note.
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From an unconventional childhood, to Smith College, to Ms. magazine, to the women's liberation movement, to feminist icon, this book brings to the page a spirited look at Gloria Steinem's influential life, engergizing a new generation of feminists to stand up and demand equal rights for all people.
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Presents a picture book history of the key events and women that contributed to the first women's march in 1913, and the passage of the 19th Amendment. Discusses how American suffragists Alice Paul and Lucy Burns met in a London prison while fighting for votes for women, and forged an eleven-year alliance that culminated in the march and eventually secured women's right to vote in 1920. Includes archival photographs, memorabilia from the suffrage...
8) We march
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Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.
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Picture Books for Black History Month
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
Picture Books for Black History Month
Picture Books in Both English and Spanish/Libros ilustrados en ingles y español
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Before Wilma was five years old, polio had paralyzed her left leg. Everyone said she would never walk again. But Wilma refused to believe it. Not only would she walk again, she vowed, she'd run. And she did run -- all the way to the Olympics, where she became the first American woman to earn three gold medals in a single olympiad.
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