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-- Alice Paul & the fight for women's rights[2017]., Adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: HI-INT B PAU Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Alice Paul reignited the sleepy suffrage moment with dramatic demonstrations and provocative banners. After women won the vote in 1920, Paul wrote the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), which would make all the laws that discriminated against women unconstitutional. Paul saw another chance to advance women's rights when the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 began moving through Congress. Kops introduces readers to this relatively unknown leader of the women's movement, and the changing times in which she lived.
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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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-- KareemÃ2017., Adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: MEMOIR NF ABD Edition: 1st trade pbk. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "[The author], Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [shares] his life growing up in New York, becoming the basketball star he's known to be, and getting involved in the world around him as an activist for social change"--Provided by publisher.
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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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2018., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: HISTORY NF FAV Edition: 1st ed.: April 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Photographs, primary source documents, and firsthand accounts describe the history of the Great Depression during the 1930s, focusing on what was happening in the United States.
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2018., Pre-adolescent, Little, Brown and Co. Call No: AMERICAN HISTORY FIC FAV Edition: 1st ed.: April 2018. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Photographs, primary source documents, and firsthand accounts describe the history of the Great Depression during the 1930s, focusing on what was happening in the United States.
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2019., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: HI-INT 629.45 MAU Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a clear narrative on how the United States won the space race against Russia by landing a man on the Moon in 1969.
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2014, Primary, Henry Holt and Co Call No: JNF006040 Edition: 1st ed. 2014. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the story of Edward Hopper, who wanted to be an artist from the time he was a small boy and never gave up that dream.
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-- Spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown2021., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 972.91 SHEINKIN SHE Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers. The two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. The Cold War game grows more precarious util the decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third-and final-world war.
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-- Daniel Ellsberg and the secret history of the Vietnam War2015., Roaring Brook Press Call No: MEMOIR Edition: 1st ed. 2015. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The story of Daniel Ellsberg and his decision to steal and publish secret documents about America's involvement in the Vietnam War"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Black Panther Party's promise to the people2021., General, Candlewick Press Call No: 322.42 MAG Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary socialist movement that drew thousands of members -- mostly women -- and became the target of one of the most sustained repression efforts ever made by the U.S. government against its own citizens. Revolution in Our Time puts the Panthers in the proper context of Black American history, from the first arrival of enslaved people to the Black Lives Matter movement of today. Kekla Magoon's eye-opening work invites a new generation of readers grappling with injustices in the United States to learn from the Panthers' history and courage, inspiring them to take their own place in the ongoing fight for justice."--Inside front dust jacket.
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2015., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: JNF036020 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Click here to view Summary Note: "A narrative history of the Motown music label covering the historical context, personalities, and ongoing legacy of the "sound of young America.""--
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-- Sylvia Mendez & her family's fight for desegregation2014., Primary, Abrams Books for Young Readers Call No: JNF025210 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--Provided by publisher.
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-- Sharp shooter[2012]., Pre-adolescent, Scholastic Inc Call No: YOUNG ADULT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Vietnam Volume: bk. 2.Summary Note: Ivan fearlessly enlists in the United States Army in hopes of becoming a war hero like his father, but after being trained as a sniper and getting sent into the jungle of Vietnam, Ivan begins to question the war.
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By Jarrow, Gail[2018]., Juvenile, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: HI-INT 791.4 JAR Edition: First edition. Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the panic induced when listeners believed Orson Welles' radio broadcast of "The War of the Worlds" to be news of an alien invasion, discussing the context in which the broadcast was aired and why it was so convincing.
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By Bausum, Ann2015., Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: U S HISTORY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An exploration of the Stonewall Riots and the national gay rights movement that followed.
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By Bausum, Ann2015., Adolescent, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: Social Issues NF BAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: An exploration of the Stonewall Riots and the national gay rights movement that followed.
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By Bausum, Ann2015., Adolescent, Viking, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Call No: JNF053080 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An exploration of the Stonewall Riots and the national gay rights movement that followed.
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2016., Juvenile, Scholastic Inc. Call No: 973 WIL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Uncovers dark, bizarre stories in America's history, from the nation's first serial killers and deadly vampire-like diseases to haunted ghost ships and vicious river pirates.
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-- 12 days in May.[2017], Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: 323 BRI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Publisher Annotation: On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights author Larry Dane Brimner relies on archival documents and rarely seen images to tell the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride.
