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''The host of MSNBC's The ReidOut and New York Times bestselling author of The Man Who Sold America traces the extraordinary lives and legacy of civil rights icons Medgar and Myrlie Evers, situating Medgar Evers's assassination as a catalyzing moment in American history. Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing...
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Abrams Books for Young Readers
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2023.
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"Siete a�nos antes de Brown v. Board of Education, la familia Maendez luchao para acabar con la segregaciaon en las escuelas de California. Descubre su increaible historia en este libro para ni�nos del galardonado creador Duncan Tonatiuh. �Menciaon de Honor del Premio Pura Belprae al Ilustrador y Menciaon de Honor del Premio Robert F. Sibert! Cuando su familia se mudao al pueblo de Westminster, California, la peque�na Silvia Maendez estaba...
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Yale University Press
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[2024].
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English
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The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis.
"For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940–2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble." In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis’s upbringing in rural...
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Virginia mysteries volume 9
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MyBoys3 Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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When long-hidden photographs surface from the student protests for school integration in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Sam, Derek, and Caitlin are on the case to help identify the brave teenagers who stood for justice nearly sixty years ago.
In 1959, the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools closed. For five years. Back then, it wasn't over a health pandemic, but because county leaders refused to desegregate white and Black schools. So...
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