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Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters

by Andrea Davis Pinkney · 2000

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Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus and sparked a boycott that changed America. Harriet Tubman helped more than three hundred slaves escape the South on the Underground Railroad. Shirley Chisholm became the first black woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

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The lives these women led are part of an incredible story about courage in the face of oppression; about the challenges and triumphs of the battle for civil rights; and about speaking out for what you believe in—even when it feels like no one is listening. Andrea Davis Pinkney's moving text and Stephen Alcorn's glorious portraits celebrate the lives of ten bold women who lit the path to freedom for generations. Includes biographies of Sojournor Truth, Biddy Mason, Harriet Tubman, Ida B.Wells-Barnett, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ella Josephine Baker, Dorothy Irene Height, Rosa Parks, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Shirley Chisholm.

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biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
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African AmericanAfrican AmericanMore like thisLess of thiscivil rightscivil rightsMore like thisLess of thissocial justicesocial justiceMore like thisLess of thisdiversitydiversityMore like thisLess of this
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USAUSAMore like thisLess of this
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childrenspicture booksyoung adultmiddle grade
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short · 107 pages
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