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Book

Resist! : peaceful acts that changed our world

Call Number

  • J 303.484 STAN (CEN, EAS, POW)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Holiday House, [2020]

Physical Description

48 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 29 cm

Audience

Grades 2-3.

Summary

"A non-fiction look at how activists and artists throughout history have used peaceful protests to change the world for the better"--

Notes

"Neal Porter Books."

Contents

  • Harriet Tubman
  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Woody Guthrie
  • Mohandas Gandhi
  • Irena Sendler
  • The Hollywood Ten
  • Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks
  • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in
  • Martin Luther King Jr.
  • Larry Itliong, Dolores Huerta, and César Chávez
  • Richard Oakes and the occupation of Alcatraz
  • The tree-sitters of Pureora
  • Father Luis Olivares and the Sanctuary Movement
  • Tank man
  • Nelson Mandela
  • Ryan White
  • Ai Weiwei
  • "It gets better" project
  • March for our lives
  • Greta Thunberg.

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