7 Rosa Parks On December 1, 1955, a black woman named Rosa Parks did something about the Jim Crow buses. ..
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I am Martin Luther King, Jr. When I was little, I used to get into a lot of accidents. One day, my little ..
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When I was a boy, I saw everything in this world as new and wondrous. Father Sun burned his bright circle ..
Mark Twain was born fully grown, with a cheap cigar clamped between his teeth. The event took place, ..
Maybe Mommers and I shouldn’t have been surprised; Dwight had told us it was a trailer even before ..
I was nine years old when my mother threw me out of a moving car. It happened on a Sunday. I know it was on a Sunday ..
THE STOOPID SHIRT Tell you what. I already know who stuffed this T-shirt into my locker. Matt Drinker ..
A girl stared at the stars sprinkling the hammock of sky. Like many other nights she listened to the whisperings ..
Humans were diggers and buriers, the cat thought, like dogs. The day the girl came, men were digging ..
If, like Claudette Colvin, you grew up black in central Alabama during the 1940s and 1950s, Jim Crow ..
I was five years old when my teeth got kicked out. It was my first trauma. But before I get into that, ..
In Chicago, in 1926 and 1927, an African American basketball team began to play around the city. They ..
Elizabeth Blackwell had no interest in medicine until a friend of hers died from what was most likely ..
Once upon a time, women weren’t allowed to compete in the Olympic Games. The president of the International ..
I spent the morning of my eleventh birthday carrying a sign that read WE WERE HERE FIRST! There are so many ..
AN Imperial Family On a spring day in May 1913, 11-year-old Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov stepped from ..
Chapter 1 Things I like are: Drawing. Sometimes on paper, sometimes on other surfaces. Astroman. Astroman ..
“Kanzi, habibti, you’re going to be late to the first day of school,” Mama calls. “I’m ..
When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped ..
Sometimes being a girl isn’t easy. At some point, someone probably will tell you no, will tell ..
Amanda S. C. Gorman was born on March 7, 1998, in Los Angeles, California. Amanda and her twin sister ..
GEORGE LOVED WORDS. He wanted to learn how to read, but George was enslaved. He and his family lived ..
Today my teacher Mr. Oiko taught us how to write journals. You have to put the date and place at the top of the page. ..
