Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to VoteThe late 1950s was a turbulent time in Fayette County, Tennessee. Black and White children went to different schools. Jim Crow signs hung high. And while Black hands in Fayette were free to work in the nearby fields as sharecroppers, the same Black hands were barred from casting ballots in public elections. If they dared to vote, they faced threats of violence by the local Ku Klux Klan or White citizens. It wasn't until Black landowners organized

descendants of the fifteen million Native people who once inhabited this land

GLORY encourages children around the world to feel that power and harness it

And in these three narratives

John Legend

When these four learning pursuits are taught together--through the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework

Through an evocative mix of fictional first-person narratives

he studies the faces around him and makes pictures of their lives

bloodlines

and healing that only we can choose for ourselves

especially in her African American community

empowering point of view: she is a reflection of the powerful women that have come before her

Poitier broke racial barrier after racial barrier to launch a pioneering acting career