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61) The children
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Fifties: An “intimate and monumental” account of the people at the core of the civil rights movement (Publishers Weekly). The young men and women at the heart of David Halberstam’s brilliant and poignant The Children came together through Reverend James Lawson’s workshops on nonviolence. Idealistic and determined, they showed unwavering bravery during the sit-ins at the Nashville lunch counters...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--
Author
Language
English
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Description
''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...
64) The rise: 1970
Author
Series
Publisher
Franklin Watts, an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Learn about the key events of the civil rights movement in the latest installment of this exciting and informative series. The year 1970 was one of hope in the civil rights movement in education, politics, and the arts. In January, Dr. Clifton Wharton, Jr., became the first African American president of Michigan State University. The first publication of Essence magazine launched in May, focusing on culture, beauty, fashion, and entertainment for...
Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The George Floyd protests that have occasioned great changes throughout American society were not spontaneous events. Americans did not suddenly rise up in righteous anger, take to the streets, and demand not just that police departments be defunded, but that all structures, institutions, and systems, all our supposedly racist, be overhauled. The 12,000 or so demonstrations and 675 related riots took organizational muscle. The ideological grip on...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
67) Citizen King
Publisher
Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
This story begins on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial in August 1963 when a 34-year-old preacher galvanized millions with his dream for an America free of racism. It comes to a bloody end almost five years later on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. In the years since those events unfloded, the man at the center, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., has become a mythic figure, a minister whose oratory is etched into the minds of millions of Americans,...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books. an imprint of Scholastic Incorporated
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts is a compilation of letters from concerned young students about today's issues, including bullying, climate change, gun violence, and racism. Reading Ruby's intuitive and inspirational responses, young readers will embrace thecourage to be brave, bold, and confident"--
"National civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges responds to letters from thoughtful and concerned young students from across America."I've heard their...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign―ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America. It’s one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis police...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Description
In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women's all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices. Lighting the Fires of Freedom offers these deeply personal and intimate accounts of extraordinary struggles...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Offers readers a captivating look into the Civil Rights Movement and how the actions of children helped promote equality for all races in America. Learn about the motivated children who participated in this historic event and why they continued to gather together in the face of great adversity. Additional features include a Fast Facts spread, a timeline, critical-thinking questions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, a phonetic...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan “Black Power” challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis. In gripping, novelistic detail, Saying It Loud tells the story of how the Black Power phenomenon began to challenge the traditional civil rights movement in the turbulent year of 1966. Saying...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over ten memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states, even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Recounts the courageous involvement of many young people who marched, protested, were arrested, and risked their lives to end racial discrimination in the South during the 1950s and 1960s.
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