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-- Birmingham, nineteen sixty-threec2007., Pre-adolescent, Wordsong Call No: 811 .6 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the feelings of a fictional character who witnessed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombings in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
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2006., Lucent Books / Thomson Gale Call No: 973.923 CUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Crime scene investigationsSummary Note: Learn about the church bombings in the 1960s.
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[2010]., Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek Call No: 323.1196 BRI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides an account of the racially-motivated bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, which resulted in the deaths of four children, and discusses how the tragedy spurred the passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights legislation.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 976.6 8604 52 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial violence in US history. But how did it come to pass? What exactly happened? And why are the events unknown to so many of us today? These are the questions that . . . author Brandy Colbert seeks to answer in this . . . nonfiction account of the Tulsa Race Massacre"--Provided by publisher.
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c2014., AV2 by Weigl Call No: 973.7 415 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Black historySummary Note: "Presents information regarding African American involvement in United States Civil War of 1861 to 1865, including background information, key events throughout the war, the aftermath of the war, and important people and groups. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students."--Provided by publisher.
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c2014., Pre-adolescent, AV2 by Weigl Call No: 973.7 415 Edition: Electronic edition Click here to read this eBook Series Title: Black historySummary Note: "Presents information regarding African American involvement in United States Civil War of 1861 to 1865, including background information, key events throughout the war, the aftermath of the war, and important people and groups. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students."--Provided by publisher.
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2003., Random House Call No: 973.921 TIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mamie Till-Mobley discusses the effect on her life of the murder of her son, Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman, and tells how she was able to go on after his death to become a teacher and an activist in the civil rights struggle.
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By Crowe, Chrisc2003., Juvenile, Phyllis Fogelman Books Call No: 364.152 3 09762 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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By Crowe, Chris2003., Juvenile, P. Fogelman Books Call No: 973.921 CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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c2007., Lucent Books/Thomson Gale Call No: Civil Rights NF USC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Summary Note: Describes the history of lynching in the South after the Civil War, including the increase in violence and brutal treatment of the victims, a demographic look at those who formed lynch mobs, and the efforts undertaken to prevent lynching.
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2002., University of Virginia Press Call No: 973.921 MET Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The American South seriesSummary Note: Contains newspaper articles, editorials, poems, songs, interviews, essays, and memoirs that shed light on the relationship between memory and history through an examination of the case of Emmett Till, an African-American teen who was murdered in Money, Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly offending a white woman.
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2005., Little, Brown Call No: Mystery FIC Patterson Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Realistic, Realistic, Mystery Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: FBI agent Alex Cross is assigned to investigate a string of murders where the victims are Hollywood stars.
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-- Emmett Tillc2003., General, PBS Home Video PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 973.921 MUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
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[2012]., Universal Call No: DVD FIC LEE Edition: 50th anniversary ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Based on Harper Lee's novel about a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman. Special features included. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winner of three including Best Actor (Peck).
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2018., Adolescent, Scholastic Focus Call No: HI-INT 976.3 GOL Edition: First edition. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: On Easter Sunday of 1873, a band of white supremacists marched into Grant Parish, Louisiana, and massacred over one hundred unarmed African Americans. The court case that followed would reach the highest court in the land. Yet not a single person was convicted. The opinion issued by the Supreme Court in US v. Cruikshank set in motion a process that would help create a society in which black Americans were oppressed and denied basic human rights. These injustices would last for the next hundred years, and many continue to exist to this day. In this compelling and thoroughly researched volume for young readers, Lawrence Goldstone traces the evolution of the law in the story of how the Supreme Court helped institutionalize racism in the American justice system.
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2005., University of Alabama Press Call No: 973.923 SIK Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Fire ant booksSummary Note: An account of the 1963 KKK bombing of a church in Birmingham in which four African-American girls were killed, discussing the FBI's failure to solve the crime, and examining the efforts of Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley to win justice--finally convicting one man in 1977.
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[2021]., Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: MYSTERY F HAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "When you look like us--brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades--everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend--a drug dealer--and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. It's time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won't. Bring her home"--From the publisher's web site.
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[2021]., Adolescent, Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: YOUNG ADULT FIC HAR Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When you look like us-brown skin, brown eyes, black braids or fades-everyone else thinks you're trouble. No one even blinks twice over a missing black girl from public housing because she must've brought whatever happened to her upon herself. I, Jay Murphy, can admit that, for a minute, I thought my sister Nicole just got caught up with her boyfriend-a drug dealer-and his friends. But she's been gone too long. Nic, where are you? If I hadn't hung up on her that night, she would be at our house, spending time with Grandma. If I was a better brother, she'd be finishing senior year instead of being another name on a missing persons list. It's time to step up, to do what the Newport News police department won't. Bring her home --
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2005, Juvenile, Houghton Mifflin Call No: 811 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents fifteen interlinked sonnets to pay tribute to Emmitt Till, a fourteen-year-old African American boy who was lynched in Mississippi in 1955 for supposedly whistling at a white woman, and whose murderers were acquitted. The brutality of his murder, the open-casket funeral, and the acquittal of the men tried for the crime drew wide media attention. Award-winning poet Marilyn Nelson reminds us of the boy whose fate helped spark the civil rights movement. This martyr's wreath, woven from a little-known but sophisticated form of poetry, challenges us to speak out against modern-day injustices--to speak what we see. Newbery Honor-winning poet Nelson offers an evocative tribute to a 14-year-old boy whose lynching in 1955 helps spark the civil rights movement. Full color
