March
Women's History
Turning 15 On the Road to Freedom
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As the youngest marcher in the 1965 voting rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Albama, Lynda Blackmon Lowery proved that young adults can be heroes. Jailed eleven times before her fifteenth birthday, Lowery fought alongside Martin Luther King, Jr. for the rights of African-Americans. In this memoir, she shows what it means to fight nonviolently and how it felt to be part of changing American history.
Anne Frank's Diary: the Graphic Adaptation
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In the summer of 1942, fleeing the horrors of the Nazi occupation, Anne Frank and her family were forced into hiding in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse. Thirteen-year-old Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death.
I Am Malala
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Malala Yousafzai, was ten years old when the Taliban took control of her once-peaceful area of Pakistan. After the Taliban ruled that girls couldn't go to school. Malala decided to fight for her right to be educated. On October 9, 2012, she was shot while riding the bus home from school. Nobody expected her to survive. Now Malala is an international symbol of peaceful protest, and the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Hidden Figures
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated women known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden are four of those African-American women whose work forever changed the face of NASA and the country.
Rosie the Riveter: Women Working on the Home Front in World War II
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Between 1942-45, 18 million women, many of whom had never before held a job, entered the work force to help the United States fight World War II. In defense plants, factories, offices, and everywhere else workers were needed, they were--for the first time--well paid and financially independent. But eventually the war ended, and the government and industries that had once persuaded them to work now instructed them to return home and take care of their husbands and children.
Becoming
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Michelle Robinson was born on the South Side of Chicago. From her modest beginnings, she would become Michelle Obama, the inspiring and powerful First Lady of the United States, when her husband, Barack Obama, was elected the forty-fourth president. They would be the first Black First Family in the White House and serve the country for two terms.