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Susan B. Anthony : fighter for women's rights
Like other girls of her time Susan B. Anthony learned how to cook and sew. But unlike most girls she also received an education. She learned reading, writing, and arithmetic. She was also taught that girls and women could do anything boys and men could do-if only they were allowed. So Susan set out to change the laws. She fought for a woman's right to own property, hold down a job, and, most im…
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- 9780689869099
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- 31 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
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- Ready-to-Read : Stories of Famous Americans
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- 923 ANT
A picture book of Frederick Douglass
Born into slavery on a Maryland plantation, Frederick Douglass grew up to have a way with words. Contemporaries found it hard to believe that an escaped slave with no formal education could be so eloquent. Yet thousands turned out to hear him speak. A tireless advocate to end slavery, Douglass urged slaves to escape and revolt. He inspired many with his bestselling autobiography, Narrative o…
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- 0439276179
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- 32 pages : illustration : 20 cm
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- 923 DOU
Helen Keller
The biography of Helen Keller, a blind and deaf girl who overcame her limitations through courage and the firm love of a caring teacher.
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- 9780590424042
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- 95 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Scholastic Biography
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- 923 KEL
A picture book of Amelia Earhart
A Picture Book of Amelia Earhart by David A. Adler tells the story of Amelia Earhart. Beginning with her days as a rough and tumble school girl who wore pants instead of dresses, this picture book goes on to describe how she fell in love with flying and achieved lasting greatness. Covering events from both her personal and professional life, this picture book is an engaging introductory biograp…
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- 0439379512
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- 32 pages : illustration : 20 cm
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- 923 EAR
Frederick Douglass : a voice for freedom in the 1800s
A biography of the African American civil rights worker who was born a slave and worked throughout his adult life to end slavery.
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- 0439380820
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- 90 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- Scholastic Biography
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- 920 DOU
Leon's story
I remember that as a young boy I used to look in the mirror and I would curse my color, my blackness. But in those days they didn't call you "black." They didnt say "minority." They called us "colored" or "nigger." Leon Tillage grew up the son of a sharecropper in a small town in North Carolina. Told in vignettes, this is his story about walking four miles to the school for black children, a…
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- 0439283191
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- 107 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 920 TIL
Dear Dr. Bell..... your friend, Helen Keller
Helen Keller was only six years old when she met Dr. Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone. The meeting was an eventful one,marking the beginning of a lifelong friendship. It was Bell who guided Helen's parents to a teacher and helped Helen adjust to an extremely public life. "You can do anything you think you can," wrote Dr. Bell to Helen. "Remember that many will be brave in yo…
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- 0590486780
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- 95 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
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- 920 KEL
Sojourner Truth
This unique biography of Sojourner Truth tells the exciting story of her life using personal recollections, as well as letters and articles written by those who knew her. "I am pleading for the mothers, Who gaze in wild despair, Upon the hated auction-block, And see their children there." With these words Sojourner Truth sang about the pain that women slaves felt when their children were …
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- 0439263239
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- 128 pages : illustration ; 19 cm
- Series Title
- In Their Own Words
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- 920 TRU
A picture book of Sacagawea
A concise look at the legendary Shoshone woman who led explorers Lewis and Clark on their route from the Dakotas to the Pacific Ocean. Born in the Rocky Mountains, Sacagawea was taken captive and held hundreds of miles away from home for years. When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark came through her new village, Sacagawea was offered as a guide since the explorers were heading toward Shosho…
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- 0439260965
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- 32 pages : illustration : 20 cm
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- 920 SAC
Women of hope : African Americans who made a difference
The story of thirteen African American women who followed their hearts and changed America, now in paperback. Joyce Hansen's brief, well-crafted biographies, and the striking black-and-white photographs that accompany them, reveal the remarkable strength of thirteen African American women. Spanning over a century, these women, including Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Marian Wright Edelman, Toni Morri…
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- 9780590939744
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- 31 pages : illustration ; 30 cm
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- 920 HAN
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