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Brothers In Hope: The Story of The Lost Boys of Sudan

In this excerpt, Garang tells his story of how he became a lost boy when war destroyed his village. Walking with thousands of other orphaned boys, Garang travels thousands of dangerous miles from southern Sudan to a refugee camp in Ethiopia.

Mary Williams and R. Gregory Christie (illustrator)

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Subject

History

September 30, 2016

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I, Too

Langston Hughes, a voice of the Harlem Renaissance, writes of a black man banished to the kitchen when company arrives. This same man looks to the future, for a day when he will sit at the table to eat with company, because he, too, is an American.

Langston Hughes

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement

Subject

History

July 5, 2014

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A Very Special Delivery

'Henry Brown left Richmond, Va. a slave and arrived in Philadelphia—in a freight box—a free man. Abolitionists who cheered Brown's 27-hour journey to freedom chose not to publicize it, fearing that others following in his path would be in danger.

Alison Leigh Cowan

Grade Level

9-12

Subject

History

July 5, 2014

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Literature

Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing

Written to celebrate President Abraham Lincoln's birthday, this hymn follows the journey of African Americans in this country, remembering the rough road traveled but thanking God for seeing them to a bright future.

James W Johnson

Grade Level

6-8

Topic

Civil Rights Movement Slavery Rights & Activism

Subject

History

July 7, 2014

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Literature

Mama Played Baseball

With her husband away fighting in World War II, Amy's mother gets a job playing baseball in the first professional women's league.

David Adler

Grade Level

K-2 3-5

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity

Subject

History

July 7, 2014

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Literature

On Liberty and Slavery

The first Black Southerner to have a book of poetry published, Horton's plea for freedom personifies liberty and beseeches her to stamp out oppression and break his chains.

George Moses Horton

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

July 7, 2014

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Rough on Rats

"Rough on Rats" is a late 19th-century advertisement for a pesticide. The image depicts a stereotypical Chinese man eating a rat.

Forbes Co. Boston

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Immigration

Subject

History

September 3, 2015

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Ain’t I a Woman?

Sojourner Truth delivered this speech at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio. Born into slavery, Truth is widely known for her abolition and women’s rights work. Two versions of this speech are included.

Sojourner Truth

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Class Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

History

July 2, 2014

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Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment

The Alabama Sanctity of Marriage Amendment, or Alabama Constitution Amendment 774, was ratified by voters in 2006.

Alabama State Legislature

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Gender & Sexual Identity Rights & Activism

Subject

History

July 2, 2014

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Beyond the Barbed Wire

Helen Tsuchiya, born a U.S. citizen, tells what it was like to move from her home to an internment camp surrounded by barbed wire after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Helen Tsuchiya and Larry Long

Grade Level

3-5

Topic

Immigration Rights & Activism

Subject

History

July 2, 2014

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