September 4 reading ideas
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Both years include Lewis Howard Latimer's birthday, Little Rock Nine's first attempt to enter Central High, Richard Wright's birthday. Use the questions to compare details, evidence, or viewpoints across topics.
Special date
September 4 recalls the first attempt by the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School in 1957. The First Attempt at Central High focuses on that day; the other selected civil-rights readings can help compare school desegregation efforts in different places.
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The First Attempt at Central High supports Little Rock Nine's first attempt to enter Central High: Direct: body describes the September 4, 1957 attempt.
Read passageRosa Parks and the Bus supports Little Rock Nine's first attempt to enter Central High: Direct: body describes the September 4, 1957 attempt.
Read passageSylvia Mendez and the Fight for Fair Schools supports Little Rock Nine's first attempt to enter Central High: Direct: body describes the September 4, 1957 attempt.
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Lewis Howard Latimer was born on September 4, 1848. In Lewis Latimer and the Work of Bringing Light, readers learn how his mechanical drawing, patent work, and later engineering helped make electric lighting more practical—without crediting one person with inventing the light bulb alone.
Lewis Latimer and the Work of Bringing Light supports Lewis Howard Latimer's birthday: No matching public Latimer passage found in the reviewed body set.
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Richard Wright was born on September 4, 1908. Richard Wright: Writing Against Silence introduces how his fiction and autobiography described poverty and racism in the Jim Crow South.
Richard Wright: Writing Against Silence supports Richard Wright's birthday: No matching public Richard Wright passage found in the reviewed body set.
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Both years include Lewis Howard Latimer's birthday, Little Rock Nine's first attempt to enter Central High, Richard Wright's birthday. Use the questions to compare details, evidence, or viewpoints across topics.
Lewis Howard Latimer was born on September 4, 1848. In [Lewis Latimer and the Work of Bringing Light], readers learn how his mechanical drawing, patent work, and later engineering helped make electric lighting more practical—without crediting one person with inventing the light bulb alone.
September 4 recalls the first attempt by the Little Rock Nine to enter Central High School in 1957. The First Attempt at Central High focuses on that day; the other selected civil-rights readings can help compare school desegregation efforts in different places.
Richard Wright was born on September 4, 1908. [Richard Wright: Writing Against Silence] introduces how his fiction and autobiography described poverty and racism in the Jim Crow South.
How did people’s circumstances shape access to school, engineering work, or a public audience?
