Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration
Title:
Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration
Author:
Fradin, Dennis B.
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Clarion Books, [2003]
©2003
Physical Description:
ix, 181 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Summary:
Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.
Language:
English
Contents:
Mary Church Terrell's family tree -- Who was Mary Church Terrell? -- A bowl of soup -- Bob Church's daughter -- "Hold high the banner of my race" -- "I am a colored girl" -- "The welfare of my race" -- Mr. Terrell "goes to Church" -- "Lifting as we climb" -- "I have done so little" -- A "meddler" -- "I intend never to grow old" -- "Your indomitable spirit" -- "Fight on" -- "Your long and valiant struggle" -- Afterword: "Those who will follow after you."
Reading Level:
1030 Lexile.
Program Information:
Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.0 6.0 69984.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 7.3 10 Quiz: 33830 Guided reading level: NR.
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Added Author:
Electronic Access:
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hm031/2002151356.html
ISBN:
9780618133499
Format :
Book
