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Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A first-hand graphic novel account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights continues to cover his involvement in the Freedom Vote and Mississippi Freedom Summer campaigns, and the Selma to Montgomery march.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Kate Clifford Larson's biography of Fannie Lou Hamer is the most complete ever written, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement, including unredacted FBI and Department of Justice files. It also makes full use of interviews with Civil Rights activists conducted by the Smithsonian and the Library of Congress, and Democratic National Committee archives, in addition to extensive conversations with Hamer's...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Traces the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"A biography of Martin Luther King Jr. that tells the story of how he used nonviolence to lead the civil rights movement"--
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Description
"The life story of Coretta Scott King-- wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist-- as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends"--
Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship...
11) King: a life
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...
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