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"In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world. Reflecting on the importance of Black feminism, intersectionality, and prison abolitionism for today's struggles, Davis discusses the legacies of previous liberation struggles-- from the Black Freedom Movement to the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 10
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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...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"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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Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2015?]
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xii, 240 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Many people have wondered why I've been speaking out on controversial issues for the last few years. They say I've never held political office. I'm not a constitutional scholar. I'm not even a lawyer. All I can say to that is 'Guilty as charged.' It's true that I've never voted for a budget America could not afford. I've never raised anyone's taxes. And I've never promised a lobbyist anything in exchange for a donation. Luckily, none of that really...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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At an early age, Martin Luther King Jr. was unhappy about the unfair laws and customs that made it difficult for African Americans to live freely. Before he reached his teen years, he vowed to do something about them. As an adult, he became a preacher and civil rights leader. He told the world about his dream for racial harmony and peace in the United States. He marched, led boycotts and sit-ins, and made speeches to try to obtain civil rights for...
7) King: a life
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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AudioFile - Best Audiobooks of 2023
Barack Obama's Favorite Books from 2023
Best of 2023: Non-Fiction
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: May 15, 2023
Barack Obama's Favorite Books from 2023
Best of 2023: Non-Fiction
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: May 15, 2023
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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"--
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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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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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Beacon Press
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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,...
12) The radical King
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Every year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is celebrated as one of the greatest orators in US history, an ambassador for nonviolence who became perhaps the most recognizable leader of the civil rights movement. But after more than forty years, few people appreciate how truly radical he was. Arranged thematically in four parts, The Radical King includes twenty-three selections, curated and introduced by Dr. Cornel West, that illustrate King's revolutionary...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help cofound the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 27 x 29 cm.
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English
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A stirring yet jubilant glimpse of the youth involvement that played an invaluable role in the Civil Rights movement.
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English
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In 1994, Mab Segrest first explained how she "had become a woman haunted by the dead." Against a backdrop of nine generations of her family's history, Segrest explored her experiences in the 1980s as a white lesbian organizing against a virulent far-right movement in North Carolina. Memoir of a Race Traitor became a classic text of white antiracist practice.
Juxtaposing childhood memories with contemporary events, Segrest described her journey into...
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Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, it seems preordained--as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come. But there was nothing predestined about the victory: a phalanx of powerful senators, pledging...
17) Human rights
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Social Issues Resources Series, inc
Pub. Date
[1978?-]
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v. : ill. ; 30 cm.
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Documents the heroic 1961 campaign of the civil rights activists known as the Freedom Riders, describing their peaceful protests to raise awareness about unconstitutional segregation and the increasing violence they endured as they traveled south.
20) March: book one
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March volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Graphic Novels - nonfiction
Middle School graphic novels
NYT - Paperback Graphic Books
NYT - Race and Civil Rights
Middle School graphic novels
NYT - Paperback Graphic Books
NYT - Race and Civil Rights
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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