by TheRadicalAgenda | May 20, 2023 | Biographies
The Escape of Robert Smalls: A Daring Voyage Out of Slavery Robert Smalls Bravely Escaped Enslavement by Stealing a Boat I think every week we read a book about a person with a story I either never learned about in school or didn’t learn this part of their...
by TheRadicalAgenda | Dec 14, 2022 | Civil Rights Movement, Topics
When the Public Schools Shut Down, Yolanda Gladden Kept Learning When the Public Schools Shut Down, Yolanda Gladden Kept Learning We know the more famous stories of the responses to the Brown vs Board of Education ruling that ended school segregation, like Ruby...
by TheRadicalAgenda | Oct 8, 2022 | Biographies
Thurgood by Jonah Winter {Thurgood Marshall} Thurgood Marshall – From Arguing Before the Supreme Court to Sitting on it Short version of this review: we loved Thurgood by Jonah Winter and Bryan Collier. Another influential American whose story I never learned...
by TheRadicalAgenda | Sep 25, 2022 | Books about Native Americans
We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom We Are Water Protectors We Are Water Protectors by Carole Lindstrom is a phenomenal book for children that tells the story of the Indigenous “Seven Fires Prophesy,” which tells of a “black snake” that...
by TheRadicalAgenda | Sep 10, 2022 | Biographies, Racism
They Called Us Enemy {George Takei and Japanese Internment Camps} Japanese Internment Camps They Called Us Enemy by George Takei, Justin Eisinger, and Steven Scott (with art by Harmony Becker) is an illustrated biography in graphic novel format. George Takei, known to...