Search Results: Returned 5 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 5
-
-
-
2014., Scholastic Press Call No: 976.2 063 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote in Mississippi.
-
-
By Bausum, Ann[2016], Pre-adolescent, National Geographic Call No: HI-INT 323.1 BAU Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state of Mississippi, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. He walked to make a statement. But two days into his journey, Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside attack. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome this violent act and complete Meredith's walk. What started as one man's mission became the March Against Fear.
-
-
-
c2004., Pre-adolescent, Raintree Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African American biographiesSummary Note: Examines the life of African-American civil rights leader Medgar Evers, discussing his youth and education, his work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and his assassination in 1963.
-
-
-
By Weil, Ann2012., Juvenile, Heinemann Library Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: American biographiesSummary Note: A biography of the Medgar Evers, African American civil rights leader, discussing his childhood in Mississippi, his work speaking out for civil rights, and his assassination and the resulting trial.
-
-
-
2012., Juvenile, Gareth Stevens Publishing Call No: 741.5 EVE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Graphic history of the civil rights movementSummary Note: In graphic novel format, describes Medgar Evers' efforts to gain equal rights for African Americans in Missisippi, his work with the NAACP, and his assassination in 1963, which gave the Civil Rights Movement new momentum.