Articles - Success in spite of the odds
- Fantasia Listen to, download, or read this article online.
Read about "...season three "American Idol" winner, as she records her third album, studies for her GED, returns to Broadway and supports her family. " - Dr. Ben Carson Dr. Carson was raised by a single mother with a third-grade education. He and his brother didn’t find out until years later that when his mother checked their book reports—even marking on the papers like a teacher would— that she couldn’t read what they had written. But she had made them believe in the power of reading.
Available @ your library: Gifted hands 610.92 C3212g and The big picture:getting perspective on what's really important in life 610.92 C3212b- Dr. Ben Carson
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"Benjamin and his brother fell farther and farther behind in school. In fifth grade, Carson was at the bottom of his class. His classmates called him "dummy" and he developed a violent, uncontrollable temper."
From Academy of Achievement- John Corcoran
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MASK OF SILENCE: TEACHER STRUGGLED TO HIDE HIS ILLITERACY.
"Corcoran, now 60 and the author of "The Teacher Who Couldn't Read," graduated from high school and college, earned a California teaching certificate, and taught math and social studies in California public schools for 17 years - all without being able to read."- Percy Julian
"Percy Julian's grandfather, a former slave freed by the Thirteenth Amendment, waved a hand missing two fingers, cut off as punishment for learning to write.
It was a painful reminder of the past for Julian, and an image that would inspire him in the years ahead. " from DePauw University.
DVD available @ your library: Forgotten Genius 540.92 J943f- Percy Julian
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'Forgotten Genius' finally honored.
"People who have never heard of Dr. Julian have benefited from his work...[which] resulted in more than 100 patents, and in 1973 he was elected as the first black chemist to National Academy of Sciences."- Malcolm X
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When X = Literacy.
"Malcolm X taught himself to read and write in prison, the hard way. He copied the dictionary, page by page, struggling to pronounce the words and to commit the definitions to memory. " - Dr. Ben Carson
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Call Number: 782.421643 F216L Main Collection (First floor)
FANTASIA tells of her astonishing rise from hopeless high school dropout to American Idol superstar. At the age of seventeen, despite the promise of her extraordinary voice, Fantasia was in danger of becoming just another sad statistic: an uneducated, unmarried teenage mother living in the projects. But Fantasia had been raised by two strong, influential women: her grandmother and mother, both preachers. - Syndetic Solutions, LLC.
Call Number: 610.92 C3212g Main Collection (First floor)
Ben Carson, M.D., works medical miracles. Today, he's one of the most celebrated neurosurgeons in the world. In Gifted Hands, he tells of his inspiring odyssey from his childhood in inner-city Detroit to his position as director of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital at age 33. Ben Carson is a role model for anyone who attempts the seemingly impossible as he takes you into the operating room where he has saved countless lives. Filled with fascinating case histories, this is the dramatic and intimate story of Ben Carson's struggle to beat the odds -- and of the faith and genius that make him one of the greatest life-givers of the century.
Call Number: 373.11 C793t Main Collection (First floor)
In this moving book, millionaire and successful businessman John Corcoran shares his shocking and emotionally moving story - from being a child who was failed by the system, to an angry adolescent, a desperate college student, and finally an emerging adult reader.
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Call Number: Audiovisual 540.92 J943f DVD
A biography of Percy Lavon Julian, an African-American chemist, self-made millionaire, and humanitarian.
Malcolm X
Call Number: J 320.54 X1m (Second floor)
"In this highly praised, award-winning biography, Walter Dean Myers portrays Malcolm X as prophet, dealer, convict, troublemaker, revolutionary, and voice of black militancy. A Coretta Scott King Honor Book and an ALA Notable Children's Book." --Syndetic Solutions, LLC.
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Fiction
Call Number: 813.6 S2418p Main Collection (First floor)
Precious Jones, an illiterate sixteen-year-old, has up until now been invisible to the father who rapes her and the mother who batters her and to the authorities who dismiss her as just one more of Harlem's casualties. But when Precious, pregnant with a second child by her father, meets a determined and radical teacher, we follow her on a journey of education and enlightenment as she learns not only how to write about her life, but how to make it truly her own for the first time. - Syndetic Solutions, LLC.
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