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2014., Juvenile, Scholastic Press Call No: 323.1 MIT Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
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2014., Scholastic Press Call No: 976.2 063 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote in Mississippi.
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[2014], Juvenile, Holiday House Call No: 323.1196 0730762 09046 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Investigates the events of the summer of 1964, when many young volunteers moved to Mississippi and stayed with local black hosts in order to open Freedom Schools and inform disenfranchised adults and children about their rights, even under the Jim Crow laws.
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[2014]., Pre-adolescent, Holiday House Call No: 323.1196 RUB Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Introduces the efforts of student volunteers who traveled to Mississippi in 1964 to encourage African Americans to exercise their right to vote, and dicusses the violent resistance they faced from supporters of segregation.
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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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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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2006., Lucent Books / Thomson Gale Call No: 973.923 CUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Crime scene investigationsSummary Note: Examines the killing of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.
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2004, Juvenile, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: HIS FIC ROD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.