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Co-captains Tiki and Ronde Barber lead their junior high teammates to the Virginia state football championship.

"Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as--human computers--used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. This book brings to life the stories of Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden, four African-American women who lived through the civil rights era, the Space Race, the Cold War, and the movement for gender equality, and whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country"--Amazon.

Martin Luther King Jr. was an influential and inspiring leader of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s. The minister and social activist won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964. He was assassinated in 1968.

Part memoir, part call-to-action, this young readers' edition chronicles the life of the late U.S. Representative who utilized the momentum of the Civil Rights Movement to effect change at a time when the country so badly needed it.

When she has to come up with a unique project for the science fair at school, Imani turns to her magic hair for inspiration.

Tells the story of Black Panther Party and its place in the civil rights movement.

In the last century, Black Americans have not only exceled in a variety of sports, they have also been crucial to social change in America. Profiled in this book are five important Black Americans in sports: major league baseball player Jackie Robinson, professional boxer Muhammad Ali, professional tennis player Serena Williams, professional basketball player LeBron James, and Olympic sprinter Allyson Felix.

This true story of the first Black girl to play Marie in the New York City Ballet's version of The Nutcracker follows Charlotte Nebres, who loves dancing as much as Christmas, as she practices long hours and finds the strength to keep going with the help of her Trinidadian and Filipino families.

As a little girl accompanies her grandma on a walk to the polling station, members of their community join and the grandmother explains the importance of their journey.

"One hundred years ago, one of the most popular spectator sports was bicycle racing, and the man to beat was Marshall 'Major' Taylor who set records in his teens and won his first world championship by age twenty. The first African American world champion in cycling and the second Black athlete to win a world championship in any sport, Major Taylor faced down challenge after challenge, not least the grueling Six-Day Race, a test of speed, strength, and endurance. With energy, heart, and pounding verse, Charles R. Smith Jr. evokes the excitement of the crowd at Madison Square Garden as Major powered through exhaustion, hallucinations, and racist abuse from fellow riders, who tried to crash his bike throughout the competition. Leo Espinosa's dynamic illustrations capture the action, and as day six draws to a close, and Major's odds narrow, there is little doubt that his triumphant rise and legacy as an international cycling champion are assured--whatever the outcome of one race--in this high-octane tribute to a trailblazing athlete"--Provided by the publisher.