Binding: Paperback
Description: Meet 50 trailblazers who made the United States what it is today in this bright fact - packed biography book. With one trailblazer from every state you'll discover how Rosa Parks from Alabama fought for civil rights how Barack Obama from Hawaii became the US a's first Black president how Margaret Murie from Alaska pioneered the American environmentalist movement and how Betty Ford from Michigan improved treatment for drug addiction. Each spread features a timeline of the trailblazer's life key facts about their achievements and how their trailblazing continues today. By honouring people who strove in the areas of equal rights feminism and environmentalism/conservation this fact - packed book celebrates what makes America great then and now. Alabama: Rosa Parks; Alaska: Margaret Murie; Arizona: Cesar Chavez; Arkansas: All - American Redheads; California: Colin Kaepernick; Colorado: Corky Gonzales; Connecticut: Rebecca Lobo; Delaware: Joe Biden; Florida: Emma Gonzalez; Georgia: Jackie Robinson; Hawaii: Barack Obama; Idaho: Marilyn Schuler; Illinois: Betty Friedan; Indiana: Eugene V. Debs; Iowa: Carrie Chapman Catt; Kansas: William Allen White; Kentucky: Muhammad Ali; Louisiana: Norris Henderson; Maine: Dorothea Dix; Maryland: Thurgood Marshall; Massachusetts: W. E. B. Du Bois; Michigan: Betty Ford; Minnesota: Maya Moore; Mississippi: Myrlie Evers - Williams; Missouri: Michael Harrington; Montana: Barbara Ehrenreich; Nebraska: Susette La Flesche; Nevada: Velma Bronn Johnson; New Hampshire: Doris Haddock; New Jersey: Paul Robeson; New Mexico: Notah Begay; New York: Margaret Sanger; North Carolina: Jessica Mc Donald; North Dakota: Dave Archambault; Ohio: Le Bron James; Oklahoma: Woody Guthrie; Oregon: Lola Baldwin; Pennsylvania: Rachel Carson; Rhode Island: Marjorie van Vliet; South Carolina: Sarah and Angelina Grimke; South Dakota: Hubert Humphrey; Tennessee: Hattie Caraway; Texas: Lyndon Johnson; Utah: David Nelson; Vermont: Clarina I. H. Nichols; Virginia: Mildred Loving; Washington: Jenny Durkan; West Virginia: Debbie Null; Wisconsin: Robert La Follette; Wyoming: Harriet Elizabeth Byrd The perfect book for kids to discover the most amazing achievements in American history. Learn about key social issues including feminism and civil rights. Inspiring informative and fun this book can be picked up any time of day for a whistlestop tour of the United States right from your own home school or library. The 50 States series of books for young explorers celebrates the US a and the wider world with key facts and fun activities about the people history and natural environments that make each location within them uniquely wonderful. Also available from the series: Only in America Only in America Activity Book Only in California Only in Texas We Are the United States 50 Adventures in the 50 States and The 50 States.
Title: 50 Trailblazers Of The 50 States Celebrate The Lives Of Inspiring People Who Paved The Way From Every State In America!
Author(s): Megdal Howard, Abbey Lossing
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780711291867
Pages: 112 Pages
Publication Date: 5/7/2024
Series: Americana
Category: People & Places (Children's / Teenage)