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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"New England, 1957. The Kindred sisters--Ezra and Cinthy--grew up with an abundance of love. Love from their parents, who let them believe that the stories they tell on stars can come true. Love from their neighbors, the Junketts, the only other Black family in town, whose home is filled with spice-rubbed ribs and ground-shaking hugs. And love for their adopted hometown of Salt Point, a beautiful village perched high up on coastal bluffs. But as the...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Focusing on unearthed military training footage of Army-built model towns called "Riotsvilles," where military and police were trained to respond to civil disorder, director Sierra Pettengill reconstructs the formation of a national consciousness obsessed with maintaining law and order by any means necessary. Drawing insight from a time similar to our own, the film pulls focus on American institutional control; how it's constructed and how it manages...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books. an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"National civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges responds to letters from thoughtful and concerned young students from across America."I've heard their hearts and now share those hearts with you. These pages truly speak to the power of children." -- Ruby BridgesRuby Bridges was the first Black child to attend an all-white elementary school in New Orleans. She established the Ruby Bridges Foundation to promote tolerance and to create change through...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"The author of Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom and the author of Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag combine their tremendous talents for a singular picture book biography of Bayard Rustin, the gay Black man behind the March on Washington of 1963"--
10) Our secret society: Mollie Moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement
Author
Publisher
Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
353 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on exhaustive research, never-before-revealed letters and interviews, including with her daughter and namesake, a historian and cultural critic presents this glittering social history of Mollie Moon, the half of one of the most influential couples of the period, charting her rise from Jim Crow Mississippi to doyenne of Manhattan and Harlem.
Author
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.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"To Boldly Go tells the true story of Nichelle Nichols and how she used her platform on Star Trek to inspire and recruit a new generation of diverse astronauts and many others in the space and STEM fields"--
13) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
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
Description
"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
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"Told through twelve short biographies, this book celebrates just some of the many Black women--each of whom has been largely underrepresented until now--who were instrumental to the nation's fight for civil rights and the contributions they made in driving the Movement forward"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of Diane Nash, a Civil Rights Movement leader at the side of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. Born in 1938 in Chicago, Diane went on to take command of the Nashville Movement, leading lunch counter sit-ins and peaceful marches. Diane decides to fight not with anger or violence, but with love. With her strong words of truth and actions, she works to stop segregation"--
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An interesting tale that reveals how in 1963, due to demonstrations and public protests, an amusement park in Maryland became desegregated and opened to all for the first time.
Author
Publisher
Celadon Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 378 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Additional New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: December 19, 2022
Best of 2023: Non-Fiction
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: May 1, 2023
Best of 2023: Non-Fiction
New Books for the Pueblo Chieftain: May 1, 2023
Description
Taking readers behind the scenes of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's pivotal 10-week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, a journalist zeroes in on its specific history and its echoes throughout our culture now.
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
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