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1995., Juvenile, Enslow Publishers Call No: 921 WALKER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: People to knowSummary Note: Describes the life of the author and activist, from her childhood in Georgia to her emergence as a subject of both adulation and controversy.
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2020., Juvenile, Viking Call No: Historical Fic Taylor Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Cassie Logan, now a young woman, has gone from the Logan family home in Toledo, then to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and finally in the 1960s back to Mississippi where it all started. There she joins the voter registration drive and is witness to the historic events of her era--the Great Migration to the north, postwar Americas racism, the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement, and the violent confrontations that it sometimes takes to bring about real change.
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c2008., A.A. Knopf Call No: 323.092 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Story of two icons for social justice, how they formed a remarkable friendship and turned their personal experiences of discrimination into a message of love and equality for all.
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[2008]., Juvenile, Dragonfly Books Call No: 323 .092 MICHELSON Edition: First Dragonfly Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the friendship between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rabbi Abraham Heschel who turned their dark human experiences into a message of hope, love, and equality while working together for freedom.
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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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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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2022., Primary, Roaring Brook Press Call No: PICTURE NF JOY Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--Provided by publisher.
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2012., Pre-adolescent, Children's Press Call No: 323.1196 073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Series Title: Cornerstones of freedomSummary Note: Details African-Americans' struggle for equal rights, from the long battle against segregation to the many attempts to combat discrimination in daily life.
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c2001, Pre-adolescent, Lucent Books Call No: 323.1 196073 009 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Words that changed history
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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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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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2005., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 921 KING Edition: Rev. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Black Americans of achievementSummary Note: A biography of Coretta Scott King, discussing her childhood, family, marriage to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and her lifelong fight for civil rights.
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2003., PowerKids Press Call No: B KIN Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Reading powerSummary Note: A brief, illustrated biography of civil rights activist Coretta Scott King that describes her school years, her work with her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr., and her achievements since the 1960s. Includes a glossary and further resource list.
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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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c1994., Juvenile, Lodestar Books Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A Rainbow biography
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[2020]., Liveright Pub. Corp., a division of W. W. Norton & Co. Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In 1990, investigative journalist Les Payne embarked on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X. Setting Malcolm's life not only within the Nation of Islam but against the larger backdrop of American history, the book traces the life of one of the twentieth century's most politically relevant figures"--OCLC.
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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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By Rubel, David1990., Juvenile, Silver Burdett Press Call No: 921 HAMER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History of the civil rights movementSummary Note: Follows the life of one of the first black organizers of voter registration in Mississippi.