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When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers he became the fir st African American to play on a white Major League Baseball team. Read about how Robinson changed the face of baseball when he broke the color barrier and opened the door for the non-white players that followed.
8) Jane Goodall
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A biography of Jane Goodall, the most respected primatologists in the world, who worked every day to make the world a better place. Her many discoveries changed the way we look at, and treat, chimpanzees.
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Meet Bessie Coleman. She was the first African-American woman to earn her international pilots license. And she did so against great odds. No one in America was willing to teach a black woman to fly. Still, Bessie never gave up on her dream of becoming a world-famous aviator.
11) Pocahontas
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A short biography on Pocahontas, the young American Indian girl who helped the earliest English settlers survive in their new land.
12) Ruby Bridges
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A biography on Ruby Bridges and how she stood up against racism and hatred to help integrate Louisiana's school system.
13) Milton Hershey
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A short biography on Milton Hershey, the inventor of America's favorite chocolate bar.
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"Meet Anne Frank. When she was 13 years old, Anne, her parents, and her sister went into hiding. As Jews living under Nazi rule, they were in constant danger. The Franks lived in a small secret spacealways quiet, always hungry, ever fearfulfor two years before they were betrayed. Annes diary of her time in hiding went on to become one of the most important pieces of literature in history."--Publisher.
17) Abraham Lincoln
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This book is a brief overview of the life of the man who was President of the United States during the difficult years of the Civil War, and who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves.
20) Rosa Parks
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A simple introduction to the life of the woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil rights movement.
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