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American Classic - Young Girl Coming-of-Age

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American Classic - Young Girl Coming-of-Age

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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith

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Getting Away with Murder: The True Story of the Emmett Till Case by Chris Crowe

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The Help by Kathryn Stockett

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The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay

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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

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The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd

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By: Paul Laurence Dunbar
We wear the mask that grins and lies,

It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—

This debt we pay to human guile;

With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,

And mouth with myriad subtleties.

Why should the world be over-wise,

In counting all our tears and sighs?

Nay, let them only see us, while

We wear the mask.

We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries

To thee from tortured souls arise.

We sing, but oh the clay is vile

Beneath our feet, and long the mile;

But let the world dream otherwise,

We wear the mask!

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By: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I was climbing up a mountain-path

With many things to do,

Important business of my own,

And other people's too,

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When I ran against a Prejudice

That quite cut off the view.

My work was such as could not wait,

My path quite clearly showed,

My strength and time were limited,Q1

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I carried quite a load;

And there that hulking Prejudice

Sat all across the road.

So I spoke to him politely,

For he was huge and high,

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And begged that he would move a bit

And let me travel by.

He smiled, but as for moving! —

He didn't even try.

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By Langston Hughes

Well, son, I’ll tell you:

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

But all the time

I’se been a-climbin’ on,

And reachin’ landin’s,

And turnin’ corners,

And sometimes goin’ in the dark

Where there ain’t been no light.

So boy, don’t you turn back.

Don’t you set down on the steps

’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.

Don’t you fall now—

For I’se still goin’, honey,

I’se still climbin’,

And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

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By: Billie Holiday

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter crop.

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By: 2Pac

"I got love for my brother
But we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other
We gotta start making changes
Learn to see me as a brother instead of two distant strangers
And that's how it's supposed to be"

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Go Set a Watchman - Harper Lee

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To Kill a Mockingbird  - Fred Fordham

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Alabama Spitfire - Bethany Hegedus

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Breach of Peace: Portraits of 1961 Mississippi Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge

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Fannie Lou Hamer - Carole Boston Weatherford

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The True Story of William Louis by Rita Lorraine Hubbard

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A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine

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An inspirational story about a young African American boy who turned his passion into his profession! by Andrea J. Loney

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Emmett Till: Woman Admits She Lied about Wolf Whistle

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Emmett Till: Woman Admits She Lied about Wolf Whistle

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2017 New York Times article about Carolyn Bryant recounting her story - Richard Perez Pena

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A True Story of a Miscarriage of Justice (similarities to Tom Robinson Case)

“I knew if a white woman accused a black man of rape, he was as good as dead… All I could think was I was going to die for something that I had not done.”

– Clarence Norris

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President Obama Addresses Trayvon Martin Ruling

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President Obama Addresses Trayvon Martin Ruling

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Transcript of Speech from July 19, 2013

"You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son.  Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.  And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there’s a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it’s important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn’t go away." - President Obama

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Facing History account of lynching culture in the United States

"According to the Tuskegee Institute, from 1882 to 1951, 4,730 people, mostly black, were lynched in the United States.

They were tortured.

Hanged.

Burned alive.

Dragged behind trucks.

And in several cases, their bodies were dismembered.

And the pieces either discarded or kept by many as souvenirs."

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Harper Lee - Documentary

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1962 version with Gregory Peck

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2018 NYT article about the inspiration behind Atticus Finch by Howell Raines

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Students could draw maps of their own childhood hometowns as an into activity before taking a look at Scout's!

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Articles on why TKAMB keeps finding itself on the Banned Book list...

History Stories:
"One of the earliest and most prominent challenges was in Hanover County, Virginia, in 1966. In that instance, the school board said it would remove the book from county schools, citing the book’s theme of rape and the charge that the novel was “immoral.”"

Banned Books Week: Spotlight
"Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird has a long history with censorship. It holds the seventh slot in the American Library Association’s top ten most challenged and banned books list for 2017, and it also appeared on the 2009 and 2011 lists. It has been challenged for the depiction of violence, offensive language, and racism."