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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The author, the daughter of Andrew Young, describes the participation of Martin Luther King, Jr., along with her father and others, in the civil rights movement and in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965.
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English
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She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America - the right to cast a ballot...
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English
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The New York Times columnist presents a rallying call to action that challenges popular myths about race and urges Black Americans to unite against white supremacy.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xxviii, 465 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A prize-winning scholar draws on new research to demonstrate how Black people used the law to their advantage long before the Civil Rights Movement.
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Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the Baptist minister who led the movement to give African Americans civil rights, discussing his childhood, activist works, and legacy.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...
10) Dorothy Height
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Series
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
59 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Introduces young readers to Dorothy Height, who, growing up as a Black girl in the 1920s and 30s, persisted in pushing for change, becoming a seminal figure in both the civil rights and women's rights movements and receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
x, 468 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Reveals how, from the late 1870s through the mid-twentieth century, thousands of African-American men were arrested and forced to work off outrageous fines by serving as unpaid labor to businesses and provincial farmers.
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Series
Publisher
Gangemi editore international
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvii, 115 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm.
Language
English
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This book by photographer and poet Nat Herz gives a true and powerful description of the great March on Washington on August 28, 1963 for jobs and freedom.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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True is a probing, richly-detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball's―and America's―most significant figures.
For players, fans, managers, and executives, Jackie Robinson remains baseball's singular figure, the person who most profoundly extended, and continues to extend, the reach of the game. Beyond Ruth. Beyond Clemente. Beyond Aaron. Beyond the heroes of today. Now, a half-century since Robinson's death, letters
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English
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A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that brilliantly plumb the leadership of African American women in the twentieth-century fight for civil rights-many nearly lost to history-from the latest winner of the Studs and Ida Terkel Prize. During the Civil Rights Movement, African American women were generally not in the headlines; they simply did the work that needed to be done. Yet despite their significant contributions at all levels...
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Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
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“A bracing corrective to national mythology” about the American civil rights movement—from the author of The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks (New York Times)
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks,...
The civil rights movement has become national legend, lauded by presidents from Reagan to Obama to Trump, as proof of the power of American democracy. This fable, featuring dreamy heroes and accidental heroines like Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks,...
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Series
Southwestern studies volume monograph no. 42
Publisher
Texas Western Press
Pub. Date
[1974]
Physical Desc
96 p. : ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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English
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"Unleashes the power of King's historic words in '63 . . . offers a new perspective on what King said that day, how he said it and what it has come to mean." —USA Today
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In The Dream, Drew D. Hansen explores the fascinating and little-known history of King's legendary address. The...
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., electrified the nation when he delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. In The Dream, Drew D. Hansen explores the fascinating and little-known history of King's legendary address. The...
19) March: Book two
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Series
March volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel account of some pivotal moments in the Civil Rights Movement.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Having led thousands in a march for civil rights to the foot of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. made the most of the historical moment by giving a speech that would forever inspire people to continue to fight for change in the years ahead.
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