Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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-- Barefootingc2006., Crown Publishers Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Publisher description More... Summary Note: Unita Blackwell reflects on her rise from poverty to power after she joined the civil rights movement, becoming a freedom fighter and social activist and eventually her town's mayor.
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1998., Perennial Classics Call No: B Wright Edition: 1st Perennial Classics ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Perennial classicSummary Note: The autobiography of an African-American writer, recounting his early years and the harrowing experiences he encountered drifting from Natchez to Chicago to Brooklyn.
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2004., Delta Trade Paperbacks Call No: 921 MOODY Edition: Delta trade pbk. ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Sample text Publisher description
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[1976], c1968., Dell Call No: Civil Rights NF MOO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The personal story of a young African-American woman growing up in 1940s and 1950s Mississippi.
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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.
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2014., Scholastic Press Call No: HI-INT 323.11 MIT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the 1964 murders of three young men by the Ku Klux Klan for helping black Americans vote in Mississippi, the FBI's investigation, and its aftermath. Includes black-and-white photographs and quotes.
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2014., Scholastic Press Call No: 323.11 Mit Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the 1964 murders of three young men by the Ku Klux Klan for helping black Americans vote in Mississippi, the FBI's investigation, and its aftermath. Includes black-and-white photographs and quotes.
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By Crowe, Chrisc2003., Juvenile, Phyllis Fogelman Books Call No: 364.152 3 09762 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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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.
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By Bausum, Ann[2017]., Adolescent, National Geographic Call No: U S HISTORY Availability:1 of 1 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, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. 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... brings this crucial turning point of civil rights history back to life, escorting you along the dusty Mississippi roads where heroic marchers endured violence, rage, and fear as they walked more than 200 miles in the name of equality and justice."--Provided by publisher.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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By Ward, Jesmyn2013., Bloomsbury Call No: WAR Edition: 1st U.S. ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An autobiography of Jesmyn Ward, an African American author, in which she describes how she grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi, revisiting the losses of young African American men in her life, and describing her community with its history of racism and economic struggle that fosters drug addiction and the dissolution of family.
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-- Emmett Tillc2003., General, PBS Home Video PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 973.921 MUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
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-- Fannie Lou Hamer2015., Juvenile, Candlewick Press Call No: B Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a picture book biography of Fannie Lou Hamer, youngest of twenty children born to African American sharecroppers in the Mississippi Delta, who grew up to become a hero of the civil rights movement.