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Presents an alphabet book with rhyming text that explores activism, citizenship, and suffrage. Offers a term for each letter of the alphabet from A for active participation to Z for zeal, and follows an African American girl as she joins a diverse group of people and animals making signs, marching, protesting, working for change, and voting. Includes information in the back matter on the people illustrated in the book, and a timeline of voting rights....
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Presents the history of elections in the United States and other countries, and explains how an election works. Details how voting takes place and how people achieved the right to vote, and provides instructions for hosting a school election. Includes color photographs, a quiz, and a glossary.
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"Stacey Abrams, politician and Nobel peace prize nominee, is brought to life in this poetic picture book biography that follows Abrams's fight for voters' rights. Narrated by Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Septima Clark, and Fannie Lou Hamer, this powerful story tells how Abrams's work was inspired by those luminaries before her." --
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A Pulitzer Prize winner’s up-close account of how a white president and a black minister ultimately came together to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
They were the unlikeliest of partners: a white Texan politician and an African American minister who led a revolution. But together, President Lyndon Johnson and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. managed to achieve a common goal.
In Judgment Days, Pulitzer...
They were the unlikeliest of partners: a white Texan politician and an African American minister who led a revolution. But together, President Lyndon Johnson and the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. managed to achieve a common goal.
In Judgment Days, Pulitzer...
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