Bibliograph

Fight on!, Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration, by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin

Type

Label

Fight on!, Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration, by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-174)

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Intended audience

1030L, Lexile

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Fight on!

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

by Dennis Brindell Fradin and Judith Bloom Fradin

resource.studyProgramName

Accelerated Reader, MG, 8.0, 6, 69984

Sub title

Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration

Summary

Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants

Table Of Contents

Mary Church Terrell's family tree -- Who was Mary Church Terrell? -- A bowl of soup -- Bob Church's daughter -- "Hold high the banner of my race" -- "I am a colored girl" -- "The welfare of my race" -- Mr. Terrell "goes to Church" -- "Lifting as we climb" -- "I have done so little" -- A "meddler" -- "I intend never to grow old" -- "Your indomitable spirit" -- "Fight on" -- "Your long and valiant struggle" -- Afterword: "Those who will follow after you."

Target audience

pre adolescent

Classification