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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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c2006., W.W. Norton Call No: B Oher Edition: 1st ed. Availability:4 of 4 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Argues that in football as in daily life, the moral value we place on a person changes with the rules of the game he or she plays. Explains how love impacts an adopted boy and releases the "size, speed, and agility" in him which is necessary for protecting a quarterback.
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2009, c2007., W.W. Norton Call No: HI-INT B LEW Edition: Movie tie-in ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)
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c2006., Norton Call No: SPORTS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the life of University of Mississippi football player Michael Oher, who was raised by a crack addicted mother and adopted at the age of sixteen by a wealthy family, and explores the rising importance and salary of the offensive left tackle in the game of football.
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c2006, Norton Call No: B Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Details the life of University of Mississippi football player Michael Oher, who was raised by a crack addicted mother and adopted at the age of sixteen by a wealthy family, and explores the rising importance and salary of the offensive left tackle in the game of football.
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c2006., Norton Call No: 921 OHER Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Summary Note: Details the life of University of Mississippi football player Michael Oher, who was raised by a crack addicted mother and adopted at the age of sixteen by a wealthy family, and explores the rising importance and salary of the offensive left tackle in the game of football.
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c2009., W.W. Norton Call No: Games & Sports NF LEW Edition: [New ed.]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows one young man from his impoverished childhood with a crack-addicted mother, through his discovery of the sport of football, to his rise to become one of the most successful, highly-paid players in the NFL.
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2007., Norton Call No: SPORTS NF LEW Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Details the life of University of Mississippi football player Michael Oher, who was raised by a crack addicted mother and adopted at the age of sixteen by a wealthy family, and explores the rising importance and salary of the offensive left tackle in the game of football.
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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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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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c2001., Mikaya Press Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great explorers bookSummary Note: A biography of the man who explored the St. Lawrence, Ohio, Illinois, and Mississippi rivers, and who claimed America's heartland for King Louis XIV and France.
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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: 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: 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: 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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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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c2009., Juvenile, Enslow Publishers Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: "Discusses the life of Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto, including his travels in the Americas, the claim of Florida for Spain, and his eventual discovery of the Mississippi River"--Provided by publisher.
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c2011, Gotham Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Michael Oher, the subject of the 2009 film "The Blind Side," recounts how he defied the odds, escaped from the inner-city Memphis ghetto, found a family to take him in, and used his football skills to build a better life for himself.