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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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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...
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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
6) 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...
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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"--
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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...
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Language
English
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Description
Co-founder of The Carlyle Group and patriotic philanthropist David M. Rubenstein takes readers on a sweeping journey across the grand arc of the American story through revealing conversations with our greatest historians. In these lively dialogues, the biggest names in American history explore the subjects they've come to so intimately know and understand: David McCullough on John Adams, Jon Meacham on Thomas Jefferson, Ron Chernow on Alexander Hamilton,...
Author
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This title will inform readers about James Meredith, a leader in the civil rights movement, who exercised his right to an equal education by applying to the University of Mississippi, and led a march through Mississippi to ensure the enforcement of civil rights for African Americans. Vivid details, well-chosen photographs, and primary sources bring this story and this case to life. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards....
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Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Hightlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Frye Gaillard has given us a deeply personal history, bringing his keen storyteller's eye to this pivotal time in American life. He explores the competing story arcs of tragedy and hope through the political and social movements of the times - civil rights, black power, women's liberation, the Vietnam War and the protests against it. But he also examines the cultural manifestations of change--music, literature, art, religion, and science--and so...
Author
Publisher
For Beginners
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Civil Rights For Beginners fills a major gap by placing the modern civil rights movement into a broader historical perspective. It also discusses the civil rights and liberation movements from the 60s to the present that the African American freedom struggles helped to catalyze including the Chicano Movement, the American Indian Movement, the Asian-American Movement, the Women's Movement, and the Gay Liberation Movement. Unlike most civil rights books,...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
African Americans have resisted oppression from the moment they were first enslaved and transported to the New World of America in the 1600s. During the 1950s and 1960s, this resistance led to a widespread movement for civil rights in the United States. Readers will find out how the movement began, what obstacles activists faced, what impact the movement had on the country, and much more.
19) King: a life
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Language
English
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"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Everything in this book happened to real people. And YOU CHOOSE what side you're on and what you do next. The choices you make could lead you to survival or to death. In the You Choose Books set, only YOU can CHOOSE which path you take through history. What will it be? Get ready for an adventure.