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Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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"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
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
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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An account of the contentious relationship between the thirty-fifth president and Martin Luther King, Jr. throughout the tumultuous early years of the civil rights movement explores their influence on one another and the important decisions that were inspired by their rivalry.
"The story of civil rights in the early 1960s is a tale of courageous sit-ins and marches, police brutality, violence, and murder. It is also a tale of two men: John F. Kennedy...
7) Rosa Parks
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Series
Publisher
Rourke
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
8) Rosa
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Coretta Scott King illustrator award book : 2006.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
"A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward-written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists-including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial...
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Series
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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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.
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Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
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"An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures,...
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
On March 2, 1955, an impassioned teenager, fed up with the daily injustices of Jim Crow segregation, refused to give her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Instead of being celebrated as Rosa Parks would be just nine months later, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin found herself shunned by her classmates and dismissed by community leaders. Undaunted, a year later she dared to challenge segregation again as a key plaintiff...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the...
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1986, c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A biography, emphasizing the early years, of the civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did for justice and freedom.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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"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...
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