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Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 25 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Language
English
Description
In the 2018 high-definition program, learn all about Martin Luther King, Jr. as a pioneering force for racial equality and non-violent protest. What were the significant events of MLK's early years? What was MLK's role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott? What was the Birmingham March? What was the March on Washington? What was MLK's role in the Voting Rights Act? What were the events of MLK2s final years and his lasting legacy?
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
xi, 258 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The memoir of Wade Hudson, a Black man and Civil Rights activist who came of age in the 1960s at the height of the Civil Rights Movement"--
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xix, 220 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Ranging from justice, courage, faith, mentorship, and forgiveness, to the protests and the pandemic, this book collects the thoughts of late Congressman John Lewis."--Provided by publisher.
106) Claudette Colvin
Author
Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
51 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Claudette Colvin in the She Persisted series"--
107) Coretta Scott King
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Biography of Martin Luther King's widow, from her childhood in rural Alabama to her crusade to keep her husband's message of peace and equality alive after his murder in 1968.
110) Cesar Chavez
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of the famed civil rights leader and labor organizer torn between his duties as a husband and father and his commitment to securing a living wage for farm workers. Chavez embraced non-violence as he battled greed and prejudice in his struggle to bring dignity to people. He inspired millions of Americans who never worked on a farm to fight for social justice. His triumphant journey is a remarkable testament to the power of one individual's...
111) Till
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Till is a profoundly emotional and cinematic film about the true story of Mamie Till Mobley's relentless pursuit of justice for her fourteen-year-old son, Emmett Till, who, in 1955, was lynched while visiting his cousins in Mississippi. In Mamie's poignant journey of grief turned to action, we see the universal power of a mother's ability to change the world.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Discover the true story of the woman Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. nicknamed "Red" because of her fiery spirit; the unsung heroine who took a stand for respect and won.
113) Maya Angelou
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Offers an illustrated telling of the life of Maya Angelou that focuses on how she overcame childhood trauma and realized her dream and became one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers.
114) Who was John Lewis?
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
106 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Starting in the 1960s, John Lewis began his activism alongside civil rights legend and good friend Martin Luther King Jr. He participated in many now-historic events, including the 1963 March on Washington, the Freedom Rides, and the Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. John continued his impactful career when he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1986. He went on to serve seventeen terms until his death in 2020....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
This biography sheds new light on King’s development as a civil rights leader in Montgomery among activists such as Rosa Parks, E.D. Nixon, and others.
In Becoming King, Troy Jackson demonstrates how Martin Luther King's early years as a pastor and activist in Montgomery, Alabama, helped shape his identity as a civil rights leader. Using the sharp lens of Montgomery's struggle for racial equality to
116) 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
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The life story of Coretta Scott King--wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular twentieth-century American civil rights activist--as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. One of the first black scholarship students...
119) The road to Brown
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The road to Brown tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling as the culmination of a brilliant legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights movement. It is also a moving and long overdue tribute to a visionary but little known black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, "the man who killed Jim Crow." The road to Brown plunges us into the nightmare world of Jim Crow that robbed former slaves of the rights granted by the 14th...
Author
Publisher
Disney/Jump at the Sun
Pub. Date
c2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"This picture book biography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., brings his life and the ... nature of his message to young children through his own words"--Amazon.com.
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