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Presents the numbers one through ten in Chinese, using each number to introduce concepts about China and Chinese culture.
Presents the numbers one to ten in French, using each number to introduce concepts about Canada and its culture.
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus and sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott. A year later when the boycott was over, there was a federal injunction agai...
The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.
Presents the history of the civil rights movement through pictures, newspaper clippings, and text, from colonial times to 1991, framed within the life of Martin Luther King,Jr.
Presents the numbers one to ten in Japanese, using each number to introduce concepts about Japan and its culture.
A biography of Muhammad Ali, from his childhood in Louisville, Kentucky, his legendary boxing career, and his conversion to Islam and opposition to the war in Vietnam, to his appearance at the 1996 summer Olympics in Atl...
A biography of a man who dedicated his life to the cause of civil rights, which also reexamines unanswered questions concerning his assassination.
Discusses the Underground Railroad, the secret, loosely organized network of people and places that helped many slaves escape north to freedom.
Presents the life, words, and principles of the noted civil rights worker through extensive quotations from his speeches and writings.
Using the numbers one through ten, this book provides an introduction to the land, history, and culture of Egypt.
Traces the life of singer Diana Ross from her early years in a Detroit ghetto to Hollywood.
Follows the life of the woman who married a prominent leader for racial equality in South Africa and then became an activist in that field herself.
Uses the Swahili words for the numbers from one to ten to introduce the land, history, and culture of Kenya.
Uses the numbers one through ten in German to introduce aspects of the history and culture of Germany.
A biography emphasizing the early years of Diana Ross, who overcame poverty and discrimination to become a famous singer.