The Jefferson Memorial honors Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father and inventor who wrote the Declaration of Independence and helped define the promise of America.
This book tells the true story of Deborah Sampson, a female who wanted to fight in the American Revolutionary War. Because women were not allowed to be soldiers at the time, she changed her name to Robert Shurtleff and disguised herself as a man so she could enlist in the army.
The Statue of Liberty was a gift from France to the United States to celebrate America's 100th birthday in 1876. The statue is on Liberty Island, next to Ellis Island, and stands 305 feet high. This book discusses her assembly, as well as repairs made 100 years later in 1986.
Read about the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, and learn how desegregation of America's schools more fully opened the promise of America to African Americans.
This is a biography of singer Marian Anderson. Marian faced discrimination as a young singer but persevered and eventually won awards and accolades around the world for her talent.
In this biography of track legend Jesse Owens, readers learn that he was born into a sharecropper's family. The family moves to Cleveland in search of better jobs, and Jesse begins running track while in junior high school there. He immediately begins setting records, and despite the prejudice he faced, he continued his successes through high school, in college, and at the Olympics. He went on to start fitness programs during WWII and won many prestigious awards. He is considered one of the greatest athletes of all time.
Virginia Durr was a White American advocate for desegregation. As her understanding of and passion for civil rights grew, she became a strong voice for the rights of African Americans. Her close friendships with people such as Rosa Parks and Mary McLeod Bethune helped to shape her perspective.
This book is about the African American volunteers that made up the 54th Massachusetts Regiment in the Civil War. The book discusses the heroic feats and accomplishments of that regiment in spite of the inequalities and exclusions that African American soldiers had to endure in addition to the conflicts of the Civil War.
Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, was born in 1924. He got married in 1946 and was elected president of the United States in 1976. In 1982 he and his wife, Rosalynn, founded the Carter Center. The center works for peace with governments around the world. In 2002, President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
