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c2009., Pre-adolescent, G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Historical Fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Harry "Dit" Sims and his newest friend Emma Walker work together to come up with a plan that could save the town barber, an African-American, who is on put on trial and faces a horrible end.
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c2009., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Moundville, Alabama, in 1917, twelve-year-old Dit hopes the new postmaster will have a son his age, but instead he meets Emma, who is black, and their friendship challenges accepted ways of thinking and leads them to save the life of a condemned man.
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2011., Pre-adolescent, Capstone Call No: 323.1196 TOUGAS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Captured history.Summary Note: Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Charles Moore photograph.
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c2011., Compass Point Books Call No: 323.1 TOU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Compass point books. Captured historySummary Note: Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Charles Moore photograph of three African-Americans teens being hit by a blast of water during a civil rights protest.
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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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-- 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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c2008., Primary, Greenwillow Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Uses the form of a blues song to share the story of the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in 1955, which resulted in a repeal of the Jim Crow segregation laws.
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c2008., Greenwillow Books Call No: [E] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Uses the form of a blues song to share the story of the year-long bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, sparked by seamstress Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger in 1955, which resulted in a repeal of the Jim Crow segregation laws.
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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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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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[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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[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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By Lee, Harper2016., Harper Perennial Call No: Classic FIC LEE Edition: First Harper Perennial edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: *Student Pick* Twenty years after the trial of Tom Robinson, Scout Finch returns home to Maycomb to visit her father Atticus and struggles with personal and political issues as her small Alabama town adjusts to the turbulent events beginning to transform the United States in the mid-1950s.
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[2015], Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers Call No: 813 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the mid-1950s, twenty-six-year-old Jean Louis Finch, "Scout," returns to Maycomb, Alabama, to visit her father, Atticus, but her homecoming turns bittersweet and her values and assumptions are thrown into doubt as she uncovers truths about her family, friends, and town which are exposed by civil rights tensions and political turmoil.
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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.
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c2002., Juvenile, Henry Holt Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1957, when her preacher father accepts a post in Jericho, Alabama, Jo wants to fit in but her growing friendship with a black boy forces her to confront the racism of the South and to reconsider her own values.
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[2016], William Morrow Call No: 364.13 4 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the true story of the trial of Henry Hays, member of Klavern 900 of the Ku Klux Klan, who in 1981 murdered nineteen-year-old Michael Donald, a black man, and hung his body in a racially mixed neighborhood--Hays way of protesting a recent court decision where a black man was not convicted for killing a white cop. Morris Dees, cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, took the case against Hays, at the time said to be impossible to win, and won anyway, getting Hays the death penalty and succeeding in bringing a civil suit for the first time ever against the Klan and winning.
