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Ms. Barns from Denton, TX is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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I Am Black History

Help me give my students books that teach and reflect their Black History.

  • $398 goal

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My Project

Books can be mirrors, reflecting who we are and what we know about the world we live in, and books can be windows, helping us to view and understand lives that are different than our own. For books to succeed at being mirrors and windows, they must reflect the diversity and complexity that exists in our community and beyond.

My goal with this project is to provide the students of my school with a variety of high-quality, award-winning literature highlighting Black history and culture.

When students of color don't see themselves represented in books, they internalize negative feelings of exclusion and inferiority, as if their lives don't matter. And when white students don't have the opportunity to read books representing diverse cultures, their susceptibility to harmful stereotypes and prejudices increases.

This project will increase the diversity of the library's collection, providing more culturally responsive books that can serve as mirrors and windows.

Ms. Barns Tomas Rivera Elementary School Grades 3-5

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This project directly supports students at a historically underfunded school. Learn more about our Equity Focus.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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Denton, TX View local requests

More than three‑quarters of 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

700 students impacted 3donors

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Materials Cost Quantity Total
Holding Her Own: The Exceptional Life of Jackie Ormes • Amazon Business $21.99 1 $21.99
How We Can Live: Principles of Black Lives Matter • Amazon Business $19.59 1 $19.59
Marvelous Mabel: Figure Skating Superstar • Amazon Business $19.59 1 $19.59
To Boldly Go: How Nichelle Nichols and Star Trek Helped Advance Civil Rights • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
Only the Best: The Exceptional Life and Fashion of Ann Lowe • Amazon Business $18.99 1 $18.99
I Am Ruby Bridges • Amazon Business $17.10 1 $17.10
Choosing Brave: How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement • Amazon Business $16.89 1 $16.89
Above the Rim: How Elgin Baylor Changed Basketball • Amazon Business $15.81 1 $15.81
William Still and His Freedom Stories: The Father of the Underground Railroad • Amazon Business $15.23 1 $15.23
The 1619 Project: Born on the Water • Amazon Business $14.99 1 $14.99
Charlie Takes His Shot: How Charlie Sifford Broke the Color Barrier in Golf • Amazon Business $14.86 1 $14.86
Curve & Flow: The Elegant Vision of L.A. Architect Paul R. Williams • Amazon Business $14.49 1 $14.49
Saving American Beach: The Biography of African American Environmentalist MaVynee Betsch • Amazon Business $14.39 1 $14.39
Shirley Chisholm Dared: The Story of the First Black Woman in Congress • Amazon Business $13.69 1 $13.69
Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America • Amazon Business $13.49 1 $13.49
Jump at the Sun: The True Life Tale of Unstoppable Storycatcher Zora Neale Hurston • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin (Schneider Family Book Awards - Young Children's Book Winner) • Amazon Business $10.99 1 $10.99
Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop: The Sanitation Strike of 1968 • Amazon Business $10.61 1 $10.61
Opal Lee and What It Means to Be Free: The True Story of the Grandmother of Juneteenth • Amazon Business $10.57 1 $10.57
All Star: How Larry Doby Smashed the Color Barrier in Baseball • Amazon Business $9.80 1 $9.80

Materials cost

$303.05

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$4.55

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$337.60

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$59.58

Total project goal

$397.18

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $397.18

3 Donors

-$397.18

Donations toward project cost

-$337.60

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$59.58

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