Interest Level
Grades 3 - 5
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.7
Lexile Measure®: 810L
DRA: 34-38
Guided Reading: P
Genre
- Biography
- Dictionaries
- Series
Theme/Subject
- African American History
- Slavery, Underground Railroad, Abolition
- Courage, Bravery, Heroism
- Equality, Fairness, Justice
- Civil Rights Movement
- African American
- Honor
- Tolerance and Acceptance
- Prejudice and Tolerance Experiences
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About This Book
This easy-to-read biography describes the early lives of Richard Allen, one of the founders of the Free African Society, the first formally organized African American group in the United States; Harriet Tubman, a major conductor of the Underground Railroad; Mary Church Terrell, a founding member of the NAACP and a leading figure in the women's suffrage movement; Medgar Evers, the first field secretary for the NAACP; and Fannie Lou Hamer, a leading civil rights activist who gained national attention when she tried to vote in rural Mississippi.About the Authors or Illustrators
Wade Hudson's first book for young readers, a collaborative effort with Valerie Wilson Wesley, focused on a subject very important to him: role models for young African Americans. Since then, he has written several books in the Black Heroes series of profiles, as well as picture books, nonfiction, and plays.
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