Book description
NCSS/CBC Notable Social Studies Trade Book
ILA Children's Book Award Nonfiction Honor
Winner of Bank Street College of Education's Flora Stieglitz Straus Award for excellence in nonfiction
Chicago Public Library Best Informational Book for Older Readers
Shortlist for inaugural Goddard Riverside CBC Youth Book Prize for Social JusticeĀ
Finalist, Janeā¦
Why read it?
1 author picked Lizzie Demands a Seat! Elizabeth Jennings Fights for Streetcar Rights as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
More than a century before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat, sparking the Montgomery bus boycott, a schoolteacher named Elizabeth Jennings did the same on a streetcar in New York City. Her act of courage didnāt lead to a mass movement, but it did lead to a court caseāwhich she won with the help of her lawyer, future U.S. president Chester A. Arthur.
I chose this book because itās so important to recall that segregation wasnāt only in the South, and that the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s built on a long history of resistanceā¦
From Mara's list on civil rights heroes.
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In 1894, Annie Cohen Kopchovsky set out to ride her bicycle. Not to the market. Not around the block. Not across town. Annie was going to ride her bike all the way around the worldābecause two men bet no woman could do it. Ha!
This picture book, with watercolor illustrationsā¦
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