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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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[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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[2018]., Primary, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discover the true story of NFL star Ernie Barnes---a boy who followed his dreams and became one of the most influential artists of his generation.
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[2018]., Primary, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: B Bar Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Discover the true story of NFL star Ernie Barnes---a boy who followed his dreams and became one of the most influential artists of his generation.
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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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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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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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2009., Adolescent, Melanie Kroupa Books Call No: 921 COLVIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
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c2009., Juvenile, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This extraordinary union of poetry and monumental artwork captures the movement for civil rights in the United States, and honors it most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.
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c2009., Juvenile, Katherine Tegen Books Call No: B KIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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2008., Juvenile, Lerner Publications Company Call No: B KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History maker biographies
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-- Do not know much about Rosa Parksc2005., Juvenile, HarperCollins Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Don't know much aboutSummary Note: Presents a brief biography of Rosa Parks, an African- American woman whose refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama in the 1960s led to a bus boycott that lasted over a year and the introduction of Martin Luther King, Jr. as head of the Civil Rights movement.
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-- Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr.c2001, Primary, Holiday House Call No: 921 KIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his life, accomplishments in the civil rights movement, and his impact on American history.
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-- Story of Martin Luther King, Jr2009, c2000., DK Call No: B KIN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: DK readers. 4, Proficient readersSummary Note: A biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. covering his childhood, leadership, powerful speeches, assassination, andgreatest influences.
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By Bausum, Ann2006., National Geographic Society Call No: 323.1 BAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet.
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c2006., Juvenile, National Geographic Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Summary Note: Recounts the freedom ride of John Lewis and Jim Zwerg into the South in 1961 as part of the Civil Rights Movement.
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By Bausum, Annc2006., Juvenile, National Geographic Call No: B Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view More...
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c2006., Juvenile, Holiday House Call No: 323.1196 076 073071624 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.
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c2006., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: 323.1196 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the story of the black citizens in Montgomery who rose up in protest and united to demand their rights by walking peacefully.