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Ms. Lehn from Minneapolis, MN is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Stock Our Shelves With Black Joy & Civil Rights Heroes

Help me give my students books full of Civil Rights learning to prep for our trip to Atlanta and Alabama, plus stories of Black teens today, just like them.

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My Project

At EB, we've begun a new tradition of sending our 8th graders off with a Civil Rights tour of Atlanta and Alabama -- but we need more texts to teach them essential Civil Rights history before they go! At our school we fund every 8th grader to go on this tour -- but we know the pandemic has left them with holes in their knowledge of the Civil Rights era.

We've booked our Civil Rights tour next year, but students need engaging texts to fill in gaps the pandemic left in their knowledge of Civil Rights history and heroes.

Students have just returned from our inaugural Civil Rights tour and as a teacher, I realize I wish I could've prepared them more. They lost out on history lessons to distance learning and teacher turnover by no fault of their own.

Experiential learning in Atlanta and Alabama will be more powerful if they've read about Civil Rights icons like Ruby Bridges and John Lewis. The books I've selected will be available to students in our in-class library for daily independent reading. Plus, I intend to use some for mini lessons, like excerpts from Bryan Stevenson's "Just Mercy" before we visit his Equal Justice Initiative's Legacy Museum in Montgomery.

Finally, I've included a number of popular titles that bring everyday Black joy into our libraries, books students recommend to each other by authors like Jason Reynolds and Kwame Alexander.

Ms. Lehn Ella Baker Global Studies and Humanities Magnet School Grades 6-8

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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.

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Nearly all 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

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Little Legends: Exceptional Men in Black History • MahoganyBooks $16.19 2 $32.38
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Real-Life Tales of Black Girl Magic • MahoganyBooks $31.50 1 $31.50
Just Mercy (Adapted for Young Adults): A True Story of the Fight for Justice • MahoganyBooks $9.89 3 $29.67
School Trip: A Graphic Novel • MahoganyBooks $13.49 2 $26.98
Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition) • Amazon Business $24.50 1 $24.50
Historically Black: American Icons Who Attended HBCUs • MahoganyBooks $23.40 1 $23.40
Rebound (The Crossover Series) • MahoganyBooks $8.99 2 $17.98
The Gilded Ones (Deathless #1) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Dreams from My Father (Adapted for Young Adults) • MahoganyBooks $17.09 1 $17.09
Fast Pitch • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Kingston and the Magician's Lost and Found • MahoganyBooks $16.19 1 $16.19
Ikenga • MahoganyBooks $15.29 1 $15.29
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement • Amazon Business $14.86 1 $14.86
Going Places: Victor Hugo Green and His Glorious Book • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
This is Your Time • MahoganyBooks $14.39 1 $14.39
Overground Railroad • Amazon Business $14.02 1 $14.02
Frederick Douglass: The Lion Who Wrote History • Amazon Business $13.70 1 $13.70
The Secret Garden of George Washington Carver • Amazon Business $13.39 1 $13.39
So Tall Within: Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom • Amazon Business $12.49 1 $12.49
The Oldest Student: How Mary Walker Learned to Read • Amazon Business $12.29 1 $12.29
The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History • Amazon Business $11.69 1 $11.69
Before She was Harriet (Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Books) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Let the Children March • Amazon Business $10.89 1 $10.89
The Undefeated (Caldecott Medal Book) • Amazon Business $9.74 1 $9.74
Pet • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
The Voting Booth • MahoganyBooks $8.99 1 $8.99
Life in Motion: Unlikely Ballerina Young Readers Edition • MahoganyBooks $8.09 1 $8.09
Lu (Track #4) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Patina (Track #2) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19
Sunny (Track #3) • MahoganyBooks $7.19 1 $7.19

Materials cost

$468.84

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.03

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$505.87

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$89.27

Total project goal

$595.14

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $595.14

7 Donors

-$568.08

Donations toward project cost

-$505.87

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$62.21

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$27.06

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