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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"In the only picture book version of Dr. King's speech in print, two-time Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson has illustrated its most iconic works with magnificent paintings, with the speech in its entirety included in the back of the book." -- jacket flap.
2) The children
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
The Children is David Halberstam's moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the Children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution. The Children is a story one of America's preeminent journalists has waited years to write, a powerful book about one of the most dramatic moments in recent American history. They came together as part of Reverend James Lawson's workshops...
Author
Series
America in the King years volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith. The first volume, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize for History. It is a monumental chronicle of a movement that stirred from Southern black churches to challenge the national conscience during the Eisenhower and Kennedy years. In this masterly continuation of the narrative, Branch recounts the climactic...
Author
Series
America in the King years volume 3
Language
English
Description
This book concludes a 3-volume history of American race, violence, and democracy. As the book begins, King and his movement are one decade into an epic struggle for the promises of democracy. The quest to cross Selma's Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 1965 engages the conscience of the world, strains the civil rights coalition, and embroils King with the U.S. government. After Selma, freedom workers are murdered, but sharecroppers learn to read, dare...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Description
"In Oakland, California, in 1966, community college students Bobby Seale and Huey Newton armed themselves, began patrolling the police, and promised to prevent police brutality. Unlike the Civil Rights Movement that called for full citizenship rights for blacks within the U.S., the Black Panther Party rejected the legitimacy of the U.S. government and positioned itself as part of a global struggle against American imperialism. In the face of intense...
Author
Publisher
Arte Público Press
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Studies four major episodes in the history of the Mexican-American civil rights movement looking at efforts to enforce the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; immigrant experiences with discrimination; the strides made by children of immigrants with no ties to Mexico; and the evolution of the Chicano Movement and its legacy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white Mississippians who would kill to protect a dying way of life....
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
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Description
McWhorter's magisterial narrative tells the story of the civil rights movement in Birmingham, from the '50s through the '60s. In the tradition of such histories as Parting the Water and Walking in the Wind, Carry Me Home" documents the real story of integrating the South. It tells the story of the city called Bombingham, from the fifties through the sixties. It focuses on the black freedom fighters as well as those who resisted them--country-club...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The first comprehensive guidebook to the battlegrounds and back roads of the civil rights movement in the deep South, "Weary Feet, Rested Souls" extensively chronicles the churches, jails, courthouses, homes, barber shops, soda fountains, and even a bowling alley where the formative events of this inspiring movement took place. 113 photos. 22 original maps.
10) Until justice be done: America's first civil rights movement, from the revolution to reconstruction
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangements of free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and restricted the basic rights of free black people. But...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later. They couldn't go to the same schools, eat at the same restaurants, or even use the same bathrooms as white people. But by the 1950s, black people refused to remain second-class citizens and were willing to risk their lives to make a change"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Lttlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national prominence as educational reformers and social activists. This book takes a biographical look at Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown. The four women knew each other through the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The other four women founded schools...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Language
English
Description
"Although illegal, racial segregation was strictly enforced in a number of American states, and public libraries were not immune. Numerous libraries were desegregated on paper only: there would be no cards given to African Americans, no books for them to read, and no furniture for them to use. It was these exact conditions that helped create Freedom Libraries. Over eighty of these parallel libraries appeared in the Deep South, staffed by civil rights...
15) Summer of '69
Author
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times are a-changing. Every year, the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same this year: Blair, the eldest sister, is stranded in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores and analyzes the historical context and significance of the iconic Charles Moore photograph of three African-Americans teens being hit by a blast of water during a civil rights protest.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2013
Language
English
Description
The essential moments of the Civil Rights Movement are introduced and set in historical context by the author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy-Parting the Waters; Pillar of Fire; and At Canaan's Edge.
Taylor Branch's three-volume history endures as a masterpiece of storytelling on American race, violence and democracy. With this brief volume, which brings to life the pivotal scenes, he relates the dramatic story of how the Movement...