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[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Explores the efforts of Booker T. Washington to secure a proper education after being liberated from slavery. Examines how Washington's spirit and resolve helped him acquire his own college degree and discusses how he helped educate other individuals like himself.
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
"I was born at a crossroads: a crossroads in history, a crossroads in culture, and a geographical crossroads in North Houston County in East Texas. Born in 1945, Ruth J. Simmons grew up the twelfth child of sharecroppers. Her first home had no running water, no electricity to light the two crowded rooms, no books to read. Yet despite this-or, in her words, because of it-Simmons would become one of America's preeminent educators. The former president...
29) "The sex side of life": Mary Ware Dennett's pioneering battle for birth control and sex education
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Pub. Date
©1996
Description
"Constance M. Chen's "The Sex Side of Life": Mary Ware Dennett's Pioneering Battle for Birth Control and Sex Education brings to light the life and achievements of an extraordinary woman. With the publication of this biography, Dennett will emerge from the footnotes of history to take her place with Margaret Sanger, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton as one of the most influential women in this country's history." "A suffragette, a leading...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Dr. Jill Biden has been described as President Joe Biden’s greatest political asset. Like many women of her generation, she holds her commitments as wife, mother and grandmother at the center of her life. She is a professor, earned a doctorate in educational leadership, and taught at Northern Virginia Community College. She broke barriers as First Lady as the first to hold a paying job outside the White House. “Jill” is the story of this accomplished...
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