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-- Nineteen-nineteen the year that changed America2019., Juvenile, Bloomsbury Children's Books Call No: HI-INT 973.91 SAN Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Some of the most important issues of our time were no less important 100 years ago. America in 1919, at the close of World War I, was shaken from the events of large-scale warfare, fearing a Communist takeover, and facing an incredible amount of social and political change. From Prohibition to women's suffrage, the labor strikes to the violence of the Red Summer and the Red Scare, this book explores each major movement of 1919. Showing how these events were interrelated and examining their continued relevance to our country a century later, Martin Sandler offers a unique historical perspective on the trajectory of the major movements of the 20th century. Showing readers how every current event has unique and fascinating history preceding it, this book will help them better understand the world they live in and the change many still seek today, offering educators a framework for discussing historical perspective and progress"--
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2018., Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 909.82 196 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Nineteen sixty-eight was a pivotal year that grew more intense with each day. As thousands of Vietnamese and Americans were killed in war, students across four continents took over colleges and city streets. Assassins murdered Dr. King and Robert F. Kennedy. Demonstrators turned out in Prague and Chicago, and in Mexico City, young people and Olympic athletes protested.
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2004., Greenhaven Press Call No: 973.923 MCC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: American social movementsSummary Note: Examines the various political and cultural changes that occurred in American society during the decade of the 1960s and explores such topics as the student activist movement, the birth of the Hippie culture, the Civil Rights Movement, Vietnam protests, and women's liberation.
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c2011., Juvenile, Abdo Pub. Call No: 323.1 OLL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American historySummary Note: Provides an overview of the civil rights movement in the United States, highlighting key events that impacted African-Americans' quest for equal right and profiling influential people.
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By Kuhn, Betsyc2011., Twenty-First Century Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Civil rights struggles around the worldSummary Note: Examines events that led to Mahatma Gandhi's Salt March, discussing the civil rights leader's youth, life in South Africa, and return to India, and describing the protest against the British government.
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By Kuhn, Betsyc2011., Juvenile, Twenty-First Century Books Call No: 954.03 KUH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Civil rights struggles around the world
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By Bausum, Annc2012., Pre-adolescent, National Geographic Call No: 323 BAU Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the link between the 1968 Memphis sanitation strike and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., discussing how the strike, the media, politics, the civil rights movement, and the labor protests all laid the foundations for what many consider to be King's greatest speech, given just days before he was killed, and how that speech and King's death influenced the end of the strike.
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Juvenile Call No: 331 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A 2019 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Kirkus Reviews Best Children's Book * Booklist Top 10 Diverse Books for Middle Grade or Older Readers * A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Books "(A) history that everyone should know: required and inspired." - Kirkus Reviews, starred review This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his assassination--when her father, a sanitation worker, participated in the protest. In February 1968, two African American sanitation workers were killed by unsafe equipment in Memphis, Tennessee. Outraged at the city's refusal to recognize a labor union that would fight for higher pay and safer working conditions, sanitation workers went on strike. The strike lasted two months, during which Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was called to help with the protests. While his presence was greatly inspiring to the community, this unfortunately would be his last stand for justice. He was assassinated in his Memphis hotel the day after delivering his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" sermon in Mason Temple Church. Inspired by the memories of a teacher who participated in the strike as a child, author Alice Faye Duncan reveals the story of the Memphis sanitation strike from the perspective of a young girl with a riveting combination of poetry and prose.
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-- White women and the politics of white supremacy.[2020]., Oxford University Press Call No: HI-INT 320.56 MCR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "They are often seen in photos of crowds in the mid-century South--white women shooting down blacks with looks of pure hatred. Yet it is the male white supremacists who have been the focus of the literature on white resistance to Civil Rights. This groundbreaking first book recovers the daily workers who upheld the system of segregation and Jim Crow for so long--white women. Every day in rural communities, in university towns, and in New South cities, white women performed a myriad of duties that upheld white over black. These politics, like a well-tended garden, required careful planning, daily observing, constant weeding, fertilizing, and periodic poisoning. They held essay contests, decided on the racial identity of their neighbors, canvassed communities for votes, inculcated racist sentiments in their children, fought for segregation in their schools, and wrote column after column publicizing threats to their Jim Crow world. Without white women, white supremacist politics could not have shaped local, regional, and national politics the way it did, and the long civil rights movement would not have been so long. This book is organized around four key figures -- Nell Battle Lewis, Florence Sillers Ogden, Mary Dawson Cain, and Cornelia Dabney Tucker -- whose political work, publications, and private correspondence offer a window onto the broad and massive network of women across the South and the nation who populate this story. Placing white women's political work from the 1920s to the 1970s at the center, this book demonstrates the diverse ways white women sustained twentieth century campaigns for white supremacist politics, continuing well beyond federal legislation outlawing segregation, and draws attention to the role of women in grassroots politics of the 20th century."--Provided by publisher.
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By McNeese, Tim2007., Juvenile, Chelsea House Call No: 324.27 McN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Reform movements in American history
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By McNeese, Tim2007., Juvenile, Chelsea House Call No: 324.273 MCN Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Reform movements in American historySummary Note: Introduces students to the Progressive Movement, discussing the people, legislation, and events that shaped the movement, as well as its impact on American history in the twentieth century.
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2017., Cavendish Square Call No: 973.921 BAI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The first half of the twentieth century was a murderous period as political ideologies grew into wars that killed tens of millions of people. Fear of Communism sparked a hysteria in the United States that led to two red scares and the rise and fall of McCarthyism. This book looks at the events that created credible concerns about Communism and those that allowed baseless allegations to ruin the lives of innocent Americans. A timeline plots the history of anti-Communist feeling in the United States"--Provided by the publisher.
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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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2012., First Second Call No: 741.5 LON Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A black family and a white family in 1960s Texas find common ground during the Civil Rights Movement.
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-- Nineteen sixties2015., Adult, PBS Call No: DVD 320.97309 SIX Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.
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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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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 Derks, Scott2006., Grey House Publishing Call No: 305.5 DER Edition: 1st. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Remote access available: onondaga
