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1) Laura Bush
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A brief biography of the former Texas librarian and teacher who, as the wife of the forty-third president, became first lady in 2001.
2) Clara Barton
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English
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Examines the life of the nurse who served on the battlefields of the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
3) Colin Powell
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English
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Describes the life of this American statesman, from his birth in Harlem, to his role as general in the Persian Gulf War, to his current position of Secretary of State.
7) Cesar Chavez
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English
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A biography of the Mexican American labor leader who worked to improve working conditions for migrant farm workers and to establish the United Farm Workers union.
10) Harriet Tubman
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English
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A biography of the African American woman who spent her childhood in slavery and later worked to help other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
12) Jackie Robinson
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English
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A biography of the first African American to break the color barrier in major league baseball.
15) Rosa Parks
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A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
16) Susan B. Anthony
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English
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Describes the life of the nineteenth-century crusader who spent much of her life involved in the temperance, abolitionist, and women's rights movements.
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