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[2018], Primary, Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Here is the inspiring true story of Harper Lee, the scrappy tomboy who grew up to be one of the most beloved writers of the twentieth century.
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[2018], Primary, Balzer + Bray an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Here is the inspiring true story of Harper Lee, the scrappy tomboy who grew up to be one of the most beloved writers of the twentieth century.
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-- All over but the shoutingBy Bragg, Rick1998., Vintage Books Call No: 921 BRAGG Edition: 1st Vintage ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The author recalls his poverty-stricken youth in Alabama in the 1960s and 70s, focusing on the extraordinary efforts of his mother to protect her sons from the violence of their father, a man scarred by war, and telling of the sacrifices she made so her children could have a better life.
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By Ha, Robin2020., Balzar + Bray Call No: GN B Ha Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Graphic novel in which a South Korean girl named Chun and her single mother leave for America on vacation and end up staying after her mother announces she's getting married. Chun changes her name to Robin and tries to fit in at her local high school where she doesn't know the language. When her mother enrolls her in a comics drawing class, she begins to feel more at home in the United States.
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By Ha, Robin[2020]., Adolescent, Balzer + Bray/Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: GN B HA Edition: First edition. Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A powerful and moving teen graphic novel memoir about immigration, belonging, and how arts can save a life--perfect for fans of American Born Chinese and Hey, Kiddo. For as long as she can remember, it's been Robin and her mom against the world. Growing up as the only child of a single mother in Seoul, Korea, wasn't always easy, but it has bonded them fiercely together. So when a vacation to visit friends in Huntsville, Alabama, unexpectedly becomes a permanent relocation--following her mother's announcement that she's getting married--Robin is devastated. Overnight, her life changes. She is dropped into a new school where she doesn't understand the language and struggles to keep up. She is completely cut off from her friends in Seoul and has no access to her beloved comics. At home, she doesn't fit in with her new stepfamily, and worst of all, she is furious with the one person she is closest to--her mother. Then one day Robin's mother enrolls her in a local comic drawing class, which opens the window to a future Robin could never have imagined"--Amazon.com.
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[2018]., Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Based on a series of interviews, the author relates the slave narrative of Cudjo Lewis.
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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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2009., Juvenile, Melanie Kroupa Books Call No: B COLVIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral but little-known role in the Montgomery bus strike of 1955-1956, 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: 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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2009., Melanie Kroupa Books Call No: B COL 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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2009, Juvenile, Melanie Kroupa Books Call No: B 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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2009, Juvenile, Melanie Kroupa Books Call No: B 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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c2010., Juvenile, Delacorte Press Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A look at one of America's most outstanding women, from her remarkable childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, in the 1950s through her rise to the highest echelons of power in the U.S. government.
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[2012]., University of Alabama Press Call No: GN B Weaver Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Lila Quintero Weaver offers a graphic novel in black and white detailing her childhood in 1961, when she and her Latino family emigrated from Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Marion, Alabama, and were witnesses to the racial tension of the American south. As neither black nor white in race, Lila and her family occupied a unique place in the American south at the time, and had their own struggles against racism.
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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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[1973], Prentice-Hall Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A brief biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on the bus marked the beginning of the civil rights movement.
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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.
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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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c1997., Juvenile, Dial Books for Young Readers Call No: B Par Edition: 1st ed. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Dial easy-to-readSummary Note: The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.