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1995., Juvenile, Enslow Publishers Call No: 921 WALKER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: People to knowSummary Note: Describes the life of the author and activist, from her childhood in Georgia to her emergence as a subject of both adulation and controversy.
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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: Historical Fic Taylor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started. There she joins the voter registration drive and is witness to the historic events of her era--the Great Migration to the north, postwar Americas racism, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and the violent confrontations that it sometimes takes to bring about real change.
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c2008., A.A. Knopf Call No: 323.092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Story of two icons for social justice, how they formed a remarkable friendship and turned their personal experiences of discrimination into a message of love and equality for all.
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[2008]., Juvenile, Dragonfly Books Call No: 323 .092 MICHELSON Edition: First Dragonfly Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the friendship between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rabbi Abraham Heschel who turned their dark human experiences into a message of hope, love, and equality while working together for freedom.
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c1998., IPM in association with Warner Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of the Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled and edited from articles, essays, speeches, sermons, letters, and other sources, examining his private and public life and describing his involvement in many important events in the civil rights movement.
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[2001], c1998., IPM in association with Warner Books Call No: B King Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of the Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled and edited from articles, essays, speeches, sermons, letters, and other sources, examining his private and public life and describing his involvement in many important events in the civil rights movement.
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-- Barefootingc2006., Crown Publishers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Publisher description More... Summary Note: Unita Blackwell reflects on her rise from poverty to power after she joined the civil rights movement, becoming a freedom fighter and social activist and eventually her town's mayor.
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[2022]., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: 323 PIN Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic language, Andrea Davis Pinkney weaves the true story of a boy with a dream-together with the story of a real-life hero (who himself had a life-altering friendship with Martin Luther King Jr. when he was young!) Keith Henry Brown's deeply affecting paintings bring this inspiring bond between a young activist and an elder Congressman vividly to life. Both John Lewis and Martin Luther King, Jr. have left indelible marks on future generations. Will Tybre be next to carry the mantle?"--
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2004., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 921 HOOKS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American leadersSummary Note: A biography of African American lawyer Benjamin Hooks, who continues to speak and teach about racial justice and equality since his 1992 retirement from the position of executive director of the NAACP.
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-- Black and whitec2011., Calkins Creek Call No: 305.89 Bri Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the history of the civil rights battle fought between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor in the 1950s and 1960s. Explores the lives of both men, Fred a young black preacher and Bull an old white commissioner, utilizing dozens of photographs from the era, FBI files, and archived newspapers detailing the events of the riots that took place in Birmingham, Alabama, incited by these two men.
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-- Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: U S HISTORY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace explore what led [Jonathan Myrick] Daniels to the moment of his death, the trial of his murderer, and how these events helped reshape both the legal and political climate of Lowndes County and the nation"--Amazon.
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-- Jonathan Daniels and his sacrifice for civil rights[2016]., Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS NF WAL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Rich Wallace and Sandra Neil Wallace explore what led [Jonathan Myrick] Daniels to the moment of his death, the trial of his murderer, and how these events helped reshape both the legal and political climate of Lowndes County and the nation"--Amazon.
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2022., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: B Till-Mobley Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: A non-fiction picture book telling the story of Emmet Till, an African American boy brutally lynched and killed in 1955, and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, who took her pain and sorrow over the murder of her son and made it into a rallying cry for the Civil Rights Movement at the time. Champions and celebrates Mamie's fearlessness and bravery in not letting her son's death be forgotten.
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2022., Primary, Roaring Brook Press Call No: PICTURE NF JOY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.
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2012., Pre-adolescent, Children's Press Call No: 323.1196 073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Cornerstones of freedomSummary Note: Details African-Americans' struggle for equal rights, from the long battle against segregation to the many attempts to combat discrimination in daily life.
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c2001, Pre-adolescent, Lucent Books Call No: 323.1 196073 009 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Words that changed history
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-- She persisted: Claudette Colvin2021., Primary, Philomel Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Before Rosa Parks famously refused to give up her seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin made the same choice. She insisted on standing up--or in her case, sitting down--for what was right, and in doing so, fought for equality, fairness, and justice"--Provided by publisher.
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2011., Juvenile, Square Fish Call No: HI-INT B COL Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.
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2011., Juvenile, Square Fish Call No: B Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Celebrates the life and actions of fifteen-year-old African American Claudette Colvin who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus almost a year before Rosa Parks committed the same act of civil disobedience. Includes black-and-white photographs, sidebars, first-person accounts, and reproduced documents.
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c2009., Juvenile, Melanie Kroupa Books Call No: B COLVIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Celebrates the life and actions of fifteen-year-old African American Claudette Colvin who was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus almost a year before Rosa Parks committed the same act of civil disobedience. Includes black-and-white photographs, sidebars, first-person accounts, and reproduced documents.