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Series
Publisher
Capstone
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"How much do you know about Susan La Flesche Picotte? Find out the facts you need to know about the first American Indian to become a doctor. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American"--
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Black History Month
NYT - Crime and Punishment
NYT - Politics and American History
NYT - Race and Civil Rights
NYT - Crime and Punishment
NYT - Politics and American History
NYT - Race and Civil Rights
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A powerful true story about the potential for mercy to redeem us, and a clarion call to fix our broken system of justice-from one of the most brilliant and influential lawyers of our time Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice...
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"The life story of Coretta Scott King-- wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist-- as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends"--
Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship...