This picture book tells the story of Ruby Bridges, who, when she was six years old, was the only African-American student to attend a previously all-white school in New Orleans in 1960. Every day for months she had to walk past angry crowds of adults protesting her presence. This book tells the story of Bridges's first year at this school.
The book focuses on how enslaved African-Americans and others worked together to help people gain their freedom. The story is set in the pre-Civil War South. A group of five slaves escapes north to Canada and to freedom with the help of Peg-Leg Joe, a white man, and others who are the links on the underground railroad.
George Washington Carver was an inventor, farmer, scientist, and teacher. His interests and talents were much more complex and diversified than his “peanut farmer” image may initially suggest. This biography will help students learn about the accomplishments of George Washington Carver.
Describes the Montgomery Bus boycott and Rosa Park's role in it.
