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-- Nineteen sixty-three Birmingham Church bombing2009., Juvenile, Compass Point Books Call No: 322.4 KLO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Snapshots in historySummary Note: Describes the September 1963 bombing of Birmingham's Sixteenth Street Baptist Church by the Ku Klux Klan that left four young girls dead and several injured, the rise of the Klan after the Civil War, and the civil rights movement.
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[2010]., Pre-adolescent, Calkins Creek Call No: 323.1196 BRI Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides an account of the racially-motivated bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963, which resulted in the deaths of four children, and discusses how the tragedy spurred the passage of the landmark 1964 civil rights legislation.
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[2016], William Morrow Call No: 364.13 4 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Explores the true story of the trial of Henry Hays, member of Klavern 900 of the Ku Klux Klan, who in 1981 murdered nineteen-year-old Michael Donald, a black man, and hung his body in a racially mixed neighborhood--Hays way of protesting a recent court decision where a black man was not convicted for killing a white cop. Morris Dees, cofounder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, took the case against Hays, at the time said to be impossible to win, and won anyway, getting Hays the death penalty and succeeding in bringing a civil suit for the first time ever against the Klan and winning.
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2020., Pre-adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: FIC WEAVER Edition: First paperback edition. Genre: Historical fiction Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Lu Olivera is in sixth grade, and all she wants is to do is keep her head down and get along with everyone--but her friends are starting to act boy-crazy, and some have even started making fun of her for being able to run track really fast. Lu hopes she can make a new friend in fellow runner Belinda Gresham, but she is black and Belinda is white, and in 1970 Red Grove, Alabama, that just won't work. Racial tensions rise in the state, and Lu is forced to take a stand for what is right.
