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    Search Results: Returned 21 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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      By Badoe, Adwoa
       2016., Adolescent, Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press Call No: Historical FIC Badoe   Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: In 1981, Ghanaian girl Charlotte enters college and revels in the freedom, camaraderie, parties, clubs, boyfriends, and learning of her university setting, but when the government is overthrown her love for the spotlight may put her in real danger from the political oppressors.
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      By Ahmari, Sohrab  Weddady, Nasser
       2012., Palgrave Macmillan Call No: MEMOIR   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--
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      By Ahmari, Sohrab  Weddady, Nasser
       2012., Palgrave Macmillan Call No: CIVIL RIGHTS   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: "During the Arab Spring, the world saw a long-suppressed group in the Middle East--young people--assert itself and demand its rights. But youthful dissent did not appear overnight; for decades it has been simmering beneath the surface in countries from Saudi Arabia to Yemen, from Iran to Egypt. In Arab Spring Dreams, a number of young Middle Easterners describe their experiences with the region's laws and cultural mores, including the crime of holding hands before marriage, discrimination and harassment over religious beliefs, and young women fighting for the right to complete their educations. They also discuss how previous uprisings, particularly the American civil rights movement of the 1960s, might be channeled to effect change in their own countries. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, these stories present a decisive call for change at a crucial point in the evolution of the Middle East"--
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      By Shabazz, Ilyasah  Watson, Renée
       2018., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: HISTORICAL F SHA   Edition: First edition.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.
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      By Erlbach, Arlene
       1998., Juvenile, Children's Press Call No: 973.924 ERL    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Series Title: Cornerstones of freedomSummary Note: Discusses the events leading up to the Kent State tragedy in 1970 which resulted in the shooting deaths of four students by the National Guard.
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      By Derf
       2020., Abrams ComicArts Call No: GN 378.77 Der    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Presents a graphic novel illustrating the four days of student protests over the Vietnam War in May 1970 at Kent State University that culminated in the death of four college students and the wounding of nine others.
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      By Tillage, Leon, 1936-  Roth, Susan L
       1997., Pre-adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: jB Tillage TIL   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: The son of a North Carolina sharecropper recalls the hard times faced by his family and other African Americans in the first half of the twentieth century and the changes that the civil rights movement helped bring about.
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      By Smith, Dan, 1970-
       2015., Pre-adolescent, Chicken House, Scholastic Inc. Call No: Historical fiction FIC SMITH   Edition: 1st ed., August 201    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1941, twelve-year-old Karl is proud to be a member of the Hitler Youth, but when his father is killed on the Eastern Front everything changes--his family moves to the country to live with his grandparents, he encounters a brutal Gestapo officer, and he begins to realize that his sixteen-year-old brother has joined a youth group who opposes the Nazis.
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      -- Sylvia Mendez and her family's fight for desegregation
      By Tonatiuh, Duncan
       2014., 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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      By Levinson, Cynthia
       2012., Peachtree Call No: 323.1196 0730761781    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Tells the little-known story of 4,000 black elementary-, middle-, and high-school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, between May 2 and May 11, 1963, through extensive interviews with four of the original participants.
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      -- We have got a job
      By Levinson, Cynthia
       c2012., Juvenile, Peachtree Call No: 323.11 LEVINSON    Availability:1 of 1     At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores the events surrounding the 1963 Birmingham Children's March, revealing how Birmingham's black youth stepped forward to combat segregation in their city. Discusses how this event impacted the Civil Rights Movement as a whole and includes black-and-white photographs.