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Mr. Richardson from Selma, AL is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building a Better Sense of Self-Worth Through Literacy

Help me give my students a sense of self through culturally relevant literature that reflects them and their surroundings!

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My Students

The students I work with are some of the brightest spirits I have ever met. Growing up in the Black Belt Queen City of Selma, they see history around them daily. From their grandparents, many of whom served in the Civil Rights Movement, to the historic halls of the once segregated school in which they walk. These students are bright minds and spirits, but they suffer from the historical denigration of living in Alabama's Black Belt. Living in a town that's history shaped the Civil Rights Movement, these students and their educational gains have largely been forgotten. When coupled with the emphasis placed on STEM education, many of these student's literacy skills suffer.

These students need culturally relevant texts to help improve their literacy skills while encouraging social justice and activism.

The majority of the text in our library are out of date or do not touch on the the issues that are relevant to these students and their navigating the world has young black adults and persons of color.

My Project

These books will enable my students to see themselves reflected through literature and ensure they are able to cultivate a positive sense of self. Literature opens up an entirely new world to students and it is important that the literature they see reflect the varied, rich lives that they live. These books will help expand the classroom library and enable us to allow students an opportunity to take books home and expand literacy into their daily lives, not just inside the classroom.

Building a better sense of self ensures that my students are aware of their heritage and beliefs while ensuring they are able to see wrong in the world and correct it.

My students look around them daily and see their lives being erased by systemic racism and it is important that they see themselves everywhere to cultivate a positive identity and develop a critical stance toward rooting out injustice in the world.

Mr. Richardson Selma High School Grades 9-12

Celebrate Black teachers and kids! This project supports a Black teacher or a school where the majority of students are Black.

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At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Selma, AL View local requests

More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
Say Her Name (Poems to Empower) • Amazon Business $15.63 2 $31.26
Jason Reynolds's Track Series Paperback Collection: Ghost; Patina; Sunny; Lu • Amazon Business $22.59 1 $22.59
The Prophets • Amazon Business $21.41 1 $21.41
Saving Ruby King: A Novel • Amazon Business $17.59 1 $17.59
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
Felix Ever After • Amazon Business $16.99 1 $16.99
I Am Every Good Thing • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart • Amazon Business $16.19 1 $16.19
Early Departures • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
The Beautiful Struggle (Adapted for Young Adults) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Early Departures • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Everything Sad Is Untrue: (a true story) • Amazon Business $15.99 1 $15.99
Charming as a Verb • Amazon Business $15.89 1 $15.89
Every Body Looking • Amazon Business $15.84 1 $15.84
The Black Flamingo • Amazon Business $15.38 1 $15.38
The Black Kids • Amazon Business $15.19 1 $15.19
This Is My America • Amazon Business $15.09 1 $15.09
All Because You Matter • Amazon Business $15.04 1 $15.04
Love Is a Revolution • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Boys Who Danced with the Moon • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
The Voting Booth • Amazon Business $14.79 1 $14.79
Punching the Air • Amazon Business $14.56 1 $14.56
Black Is a Rainbow Color • Amazon Business $13.89 1 $13.89
Black Brother, Black Brother • Amazon Business $13.88 1 $13.88
Badass Black Girl: Questions, Quotes, and Affirmations for Teens (Teen and YA Maturing, Cultural heritage, Women Biographies) • Amazon Business $13.79 1 $13.79
Darius the Great Deserves Better • Amazon Business $13.68 1 $13.68
We Are Not Free • Amazon Business $13.65 1 $13.65
Black Girl Unlimited: The Remarkable Story of a Teenage Wizard • Amazon Business $11.99 1 $11.99
You Should See Me in a Crown • Amazon Business $11.98 1 $11.98
More Than Just a Pretty Face • Amazon Business $11.59 1 $11.59
A Song Below Water: A Novel • Amazon Business $11.39 1 $11.39
Black Boy Out of Time: A Memoir • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
The Boy in the Black Suit • Amazon Business $10.79 1 $10.79
Not So Pure and Simple • Amazon Business $10.29 1 $10.29
Calling My Name • Amazon Business $9.89 1 $9.89
When I Was the Greatest • Amazon Business $9.29 1 $9.29
The Invincible Summer of Juniper Jones • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Black Enough: Stories of Being Young & Black in America • Amazon Business $8.79 1 $8.79
Some Places More Than Others • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
A Drop of Midnight: A Memoir • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
For Every One • Amazon Business $7.99 1 $7.99
As Brave As You • Amazon Business $5.99 1 $5.99

Materials cost

$597.55

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $48.70

3rd party payment processing fee

$8.96

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$685.21

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$120.92

Total project goal

$806.13

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $806.13

1 Donor

-$806.13

Donations toward project cost

-$685.21

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$120.92

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