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We're Better Than This: My Fight for the Future of Our Democracy
by Elijah Cummings
New Biography, CUMMINGS. A memoir by the late Congressman details how his experiences as a sharecroppers’ son in volatile South Baltimore shaped his life in activism, explaining how government oversight can become a positive part of a just American collective.
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Desert Rose: The Life and Legacy of Coretta Scott King
by Edythe Scott Bagley
Biography, KING. Recounts the life of Coretta Scott King, beginning with an upbringing that stressed education, her talent as a musician, and her activism alongside her husband and on her own.
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King
Biography, KING. Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography. The autobiography delves into the philosophical training King received at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University, where he consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian Benjamin Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau, Gandhi, and Thoreau. Through King's voice, the reader intimately shares in his trials and triumphs, including the Montgomery Boycott, the 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech," the Selma March, and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
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King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Charles Johnson
Biography, KING. A photographic tour of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, public and private, covers a wide range of scenes, from King standing before his congregation to the bus boycott in Montgomery and his incarceration in a Birmingham jail to his assassination and its aftermath.
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Redemption: Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours
by Joseph Rosenbloom
Biography, KING. A deeply intimate chronicle of the last 31 hours of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life draws on dozens of interviews with Memphis insiders and recently released archival materials to share insights into his personal and political activities as well as his marital difficulties at the same time James Earl Ray orchestrated his assassination.
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The Seminarian: Martin Luther King, Jr. Comes of Age
by Patrick Parr
Biography, KING. The Seminarian is the first definitive, full-length account of King’s years as a divinity student at Crozer Theological Seminary. Long passed over by biographers and historians, this period in King’s life is vital to understanding the historical figure he soon became.
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His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
New Biography, LEWIS. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hope of Glory presents a timely portrait of veteran congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis that details the life experiences that informed his faith and shaped his practices of non-violent protest.
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Rosa Parks: A Biography
by Joyce Ann Hanson
Biography, PARKS. Recounts the life and accomplishments of the civil rights icon, and provides an overview of the history of African American women's efforts to improve their communities since the Civil War.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Biography, PARKS. This definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement. "In the first sweeping history of Parks's life, Theoharis shows us that Parks not only sat down on the bus, but stood on the right side of justice for her entire life.” —Julian Bond, chairman emeritus, NAACP.
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The Struggle is Eternal: Gloria Richardson and Black Liberation
by Joseph R. Fitzgerald
Biography, RICHARDSON. As the leader of the Cambridge Nonviolent Action Committee (CNAC), a multifaceted liberation campaign formed to target segregation and racial inequality in Cambridge, Maryland, Gloria Richardson advocated for economic justice and tactics beyond nonviolent demonstrations. Her philosophies and strategies--including her belief that black people had a right to self-defense--were adopted, often without credit, by a number of civil rights and black power leaders and activists.
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Black Radical: The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
by Kerri Greenidge
Biography, TROTTER. William Monroe Trotter (1872- 1934), though still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized black working- class citizens to wield their political power despite the violent racism of post- Reconstruction America. For more than thirty years, the Harvard-educated Trotter edited and published the Guardian, a weekly Boston newspaper that was read across the nation. Defining himself against the gradualist politics of Booker T. Washington and the elitism of W. E. B. Du Bois, Trotter advocated for a radical vision of black liberation that prefigured leaders such as Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Biography, X. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne
New Biography, X. A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination.
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30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
by Bill Steigerwald
Non-Fiction, 305.800973. Tells the story of a white journalist from Pittsburgh who lived for thirty days as a black man in the Jim Crow South alongside Atlanta's black civil rights pioneer Wesley Dobbs, an experiment that brought national attention to the shameful system of segregation.
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Selected Writings and Speeches of Marcus Garvey
by Marcus Garvey
Non-Fiction, 320.546. One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was an orator for the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements. A printer and newspaper editor in his youth, Garvey furthered his education in England and eventually traveled to the United States, where he impressed thousands with his speeches and millions more through his newspaper articles. His message of black pride resonated in all his efforts. This anthology contains some of his most noted writings, among them “The Negro’s Greatest Enemy,” "Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World," and "Africa for the Africans," as well as powerful speeches on unemployment, leadership, and emancipation.
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The Black Panthers: Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution
by Bryan Shih
Non-Fiction, 322.42. In the 50th anniversary year of the Black Panther Party, a photojournalist and a historian offer a reappraisal of the party's history and legacy. Beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and beyond charismatic leaders like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, were the ordinary men and women who made up the Panther rank and file. Through portraits and interviews with surviving Panthers, as well as illuminating essays by leading scholars, The Black Panthers reveals party members' grit and battle scars, their lessons, their successes and failures, and the undying love for the people that kept them going.
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The Radical King
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction, 323.092. Features more than 20 works, organized by theme, by the celebrated orator and civil rights champion that highlight his revolutionary vision as a democratic socialist, his opposition to the Vietnam War, his solidarity with the poor and his fight against global imperialism.
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She Would Not Be Moved: How We Tell the Story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Herbert R. Kohl
Non-Fiction, 323.092. A National Book Award-winning author evaluates the ways in which the story of Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott has been distorted when taught in schools. Hailed by the New York Times Book Review when it was first published as having "the transcendent power that allows us to see . . . alternate ways of viewing our history and understanding what is going on in our classrooms," this expanded version of Kohl’s original groundbreaking discussion "deftly catalogs problems with the prevailing presentations of Parks and offers [a] more historically accurate, politically pointed and age-appropriate alternative" (Chicago Tribune).
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To Shape a New World: Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Tommie Shelby
Non-Fiction, 323.092. Cornel West, Danielle Allen, Martha Nussbaum, Robert Gooding-Williams, and other authors join Shelby and Terry in careful, critical engagement with King’s understudied writings on labor and welfare rights, voting rights, racism, civil disobedience, nonviolence, economic inequality, poverty, love, just-war theory, virtue ethics, political theology, imperialism, nationalism, reparations, and social justice. In King’s exciting and learned work, the authors find an array of compelling challenges to some of the most pressing political dilemmas of our present, and rethink the legacy of this towering figure.
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom: African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
by Janet Dewart Bell
Non-Fiction, 323.0922. A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories celebrates the lesser-known leadership of African-American women in the 20th-century fight for civil rights, drawing on first-person interviews to offer deeply personal and intimate insights into what inspired and fueled the work of nine surviving Civil Rights-era activists.
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Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
New Non-Fiction, 323.1196. It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for Black people. Before the Civil War, masters confined their slaves to their property, while free Black people found themselves regularly stopped, questioned, and even kidnapped. Restrictions on movement before Emancipation carried over, in different forms, into Reconstruction and beyond; for most of the 20th century, many white Americans felt blithely comfortable denying their Black countrymen the right to travel freely on trains and buses. Yet it became more difficult to shackle someone who was cruising along a highway at 45 miles per hour. In Driving While Black, the acclaimed historian Gretchen Sorin reveals how the car--the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility--has always held particular importance for African Americans, allowing Black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road.
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Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegregated city bus service.
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Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. The celebrated civil rights leader outlines the trends in the African American struggle during the sixties, and pleads for peaceful coexistence between the African American and white communities.
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At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance--A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
by Danielle L. McGuire
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. In this groundbreaking book, Danielle McGuire writes about Recy Taylor, a young black mother who was raped by seven armed white men and left for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator to Abbeville. Her name was Rosa Parks. In taking on this case, Parks launched a movement that ultimately changed the world. The author gives us the never-before-told history of how the civil rights movement began; how it was in part started in protest against the ritualistic rape of black women by white men who used economic intimidation, sexual violence, and terror to derail the freedom movement; and how those forces persisted unpunished throughout the Jim Crow era. Black women’s protests against sexual assault fueled civil rights campaigns throughout the South that began during World War II and went through to the Black Power movement. The Montgomery bus boycott was the baptism, not the birth, of that struggle.
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NAACP: Celebrating a Century; 100 Years in Pictures
by National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Enhanced by hundreds of photographs, chronicles the one-hundred-year history of America's oldest, largest, and most important civil rights organization.
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Reporting Civil Rights: The Library of America Edition
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Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A two-volume anthology of journalism documenting more than 30 years of the African-American struggle for freedom and equal rights draws on nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports, book excerpts and features by such notable writers as David Halberstam, Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison.
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History: The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
by Jeanne Theoharis
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. 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, has shuttered the movement firmly in the past, whitewashed the forces that stood in its way, and diminished its scope. And it is used perniciously in our own times to chastise present-day movements and obscure contemporary injustice. In A More Beautiful and Terrible History award-winning historian Jeanne Theoharis dissects this national myth-making, teasing apart the accepted stories to show them in a strikingly different light.
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Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
by Juan Williams
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary and award winner.
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This Day in Civil Rights History
by Randall Williams
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. This Day in Civil Rights History, by renowned civil-rights activist Randall Williams, is a day-by-day survey of the people, places, and events that impacted the civil rights movement and shaped the future of the United States. Flip to any date and you’ll find fascinating, informative facts and anecdotes.
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Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy
by Darryl Pinckney
Non-Fiction, 324.62. In this combination of memoir, historical narrative, and contemporary political and social analysis, Pinckney investigates the struggle for Black voting rights from Reconstruction through the civil rights movement, leading up to the election of Barack Obama as president. Interspersed throughout the historical narrative are Pinckney's own memories of growing up during the civil rights era, his unsure grasp of the events he saw on television or heard discussed, and the reactions of his parents to the social changes that were taking place at the time and later to Obama's election. He concludes with an examination of the current state of electoral politics.
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Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer
by Kenneth Walter Mack
Non-Fiction, 340. Profiles African American lawyers during the era of segregation and the civil rights movement, with an emphasis on the conflicts they felt between their identities as African Americans and their professional identities as lawyers.
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Eisenhower vs. Warren: The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
by James F Simon
Non-Fiction, 347.732634. Traces the bitter 1950s rivalry between President Eisenhower and Chief Justice Earl Warren and how it framed the tumultuous future of the modern civil rights movement, sharing insights into their respective beliefs about gradual versus immediate change and how their complicated political and personal differences continue to reverberate today.
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The Blood of Emmett Till
by Timothy B Tyson
Non-Fiction, 364.134. Draws on previously untapped firsthand testimonies and recovered court transcripts to present a scholarly account of the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and its role in launching the civil rights movement. By the award-winning author of Blood Done Sign My Name.
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A Forgotten Sisterhood: Pioneering Black Women Educators and Activists in the Jim Crow South
by Audrey T. McCluskey
Non-Fiction, 370.922. Emerging from the darkness of the slave era and Reconstruction, black activist women Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Charlotte Hawkins Brown, and Nannie Helen Burroughs founded schools aimed at liberating African-American youth from disadvantaged futures in the segregated and decidedly unequal South. From the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries, these individuals fought discrimination as members of a larger movement of black women who uplifted future generations through a focus on education, social service, and cultural transformation. Laney, Bethune, Brown, and Burroughs built off each other’s successes and learned from each other’s struggles as administrators, lecturers, and suffragists. Drawing from the women’s own letters and writings about educational methods and from remembrances of surviving students, Audrey Thomas McCluskey reveals the pivotal significance of this sisterhood’s legacy for later generations and for the institution of education itself.
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Black Prophetic Fire
by Cornel West
Non-Fiction, 920.009296. Cornel West, with distinguished scholar Christa Buschendorf, provides a fresh perspective on six revolutionary African American leaders: Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King Jr., Ella Baker, Malcolm X, and Ida B. Wells. In dialogue with Buschendorf, West examines the impact of these men and women on their own eras and across the decades. He not only rediscovers the integrity and commitment within these passionate advocates but also their fault lines. By providing new insights that humanize all of these well-known figures, in the engrossing dialogue with Buschendorf, and in his insightful introduction and powerful closing essay, Cornel West takes an important step in rekindling the Black prophetic fire so essential in the age of Obama.
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The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family
by Gail Lumet Buckley
Non-Fiction, 929.20973. The daughter of actress Lena Horne traces the story of her family between two major human rights periods in America, sharing the stories of her house-slave-turned-businessman ancestor, the branches of her family that lived in the North and South and their experiences during the Jim Crow and wartime eras.
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Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
by Dick Gregory
Non-Fiction. The activist and social satirist who trail-blazed a new form of racial commentary in the 1960s examines 100 key events in Black History through this collection of essays which examine Middle Passage, the creation of Jheri Curl and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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The Radical King
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction, 323.092. Features more than 20 works, organized by theme, by the celebrated orator and civil rights champion that highlight his revolutionary vision as a democratic socialist, his opposition to the Vietnam War, his solidarity with the poor and his fight against global imperialism.
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
by Coretta Scott King
The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist presents her full life story, as told before her death to one of her closest confidants.
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30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
by Bill Steigerwald
Non-Fiction, 305.800973. Tells the story of a white journalist from Pittsburgh who lived for thirty days as a black man in the Jim Crow South alongside Atlanta's black civil rights pioneer Wesley Dobbs, an experiment that brought national attention to the shameful system of segregation.
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The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Biography. Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Biography, X. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
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The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Feature Films, AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
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Betty & Coretta
Feature Films, BETTY. The stories of Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz, and their roles in the civil rights movement during the twentieth century.
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The Butler
Feature Films, BUTLER. Follows the events in Cecil Gaines' life and in the country as he works as a White House butler under eight administrations.
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4 Little Girls
Documents the events surrounding the 1963 bombing of an African American Baptist Church in Alabama, which resulted in the deaths of four young girls.
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I Am Not Your Negro
Feature Films, I AM. Through archival interviews with James Baldwin and other footage, tells the story of racism in the United States in the twentieth century.
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Race
Feature Films, RACE. The story of track and field legend Jesse Owens, and his record-breaking performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
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Selma
Feature Films, SELMA. From the Oscar-winning producers of 12 Years a Slave and acclaimed director Ava DuVernay comes the true story of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches, a story of courage and hope that changed the world forever.
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Slavery by Another Name
Non-Fiction, DVDs, 305.896073. A documentary which takes a look at various instances where slavery has continued to exist in America even in the many years following its supposed abolition
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Freedom Riders
Non-Fiction DVDs, 323.1196073. Documents the story of a group of civil rights activists who travelled by bus in the South during 1961 to challenge segregated travel facilities.
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Freedom Summer
Non-Fiction DVDs, 323.1196073. Documents the ten-week period during the summer of 1964 in Mississippi when efforts by the Council of Federated Organizations and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party worked to enfranchise the segregated state's black population.
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I am MLK Jr.
Non-Fiction DVDs, B KING. Explores the life and career of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
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John Lewis: Good Trouble
Non-Fiction DVDs, B LEWIS. Chronicles the life and career of civil rights activist and politician John Lewis.
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Eyes on the Prize
Series DVDs, 323.1196073. The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
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The Black Lives Matter Movement
by Peggy J. Parks
YA Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Discusses the origins of the movement in the uneasy relationships that often exist between African Americans and law enforcement, the events that triggered its formation, reactions, efforts to hold police accountable, and police reform.
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March
by John Lewis
A multi-volume graphic account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights covers his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and his involvement in the Freedom rides and the Selma to Montgomery march.
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Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
YA Fiction, STONE. Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
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Heroes for Civil Rights
by David A. Adler
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. Profiles the leaders and heroes of the civil rights movements, including Fannie Lou Hamer, the Little Rock Nine, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; examining what historical contribution they made in the effort to make equality a right for all.
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We Are the Change: Words of Inspiration from Civil Rights Leaders
by Selino Alko
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. Sixteen award-winning children's book artists, including Brian Pinkney, Greg Pizzoli and Dan Santat, illustrate the civil rights quotations that inspire them, in an uplifting collection that celebrates the powerful words of such leaders as Martin Luther King, Jr., Eleanor Roosevelt and Maya Angelou. Simultaneous eBook.
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Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
by Larry Dane Brimner
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights author Larry Dane Brimner relies on archival documents and rarely seen images to tell the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride.
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March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
by Christine King Farris
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. 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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The Civil Rights Movement through the Eyes of Lyndon B. Johnson
by Moira Rose Donohue
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. The Presidential Perspectives series takes readers into the Oval Office during some of the most pivotal moments in U.S. history so they can see this history through the eyes of the presidents as they shape policies and make key decisions.
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We've Got a Job: The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
by Cynthia Levinson
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. We've Got a Job tells the little-known story of the 4,000 black elementary, middle and high school students who voluntarily went to jail in Birmingham, Alabama, in May 1963. Fulfilling Mahatma Gandhi's and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s precept to "fill the jails," the students succeeded in desegregating one of the most racially violent cities in America. The astonishing events surrounding the Children's March are retold here from the perspectives of four of the original participants.
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We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
by Debbie Levy
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A celebration of the history of the struggle for freedom as reflected through moments when the iconic song, "We Shall Overcome," was sung explains how the song has come to represent civil rights and freedom around the world.
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The Freedom Summer Murders
by Don Mitchell
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A young reader's introduction to the harrowing story traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African-Americans for the vote.
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Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
by Elizabeth Partridge
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. An inspiring examination of the landmark march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this book focuses on the children who faced terrifying violence in order to walk alongside him in their fight for freedom and the right to vote.
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Freedom Walkers: The Story of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Russell Freedman
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to move to the back of the bus and give up her seat to a white man. This refusal to give up her dignity sparked the Montgomery bus boycott, a yearlong struggle, and a major victory in the civil rights movement.
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My Country, 'Tis of Thee: How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights
by Claire Rudolf Murphy
J Non-Fiction, 782.421599. An engaging chronicle of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement through the changing lyrics of a classic patriotic song reveals how its words have been transformed by generations of protestors and civil rights pioneers throughout landmark historical movements. Illustrated by the three-time Caldecott Honor-winning artist of Uptown.
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Martin Rising: Requiem for a King
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J Non-Fiction, 811.6. The award-winning husband-and-wife team present a sumptuously illustrated tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s commitment to non-violent protest in support of civil rights, in a metaphorical and spiritually symbolic poetic requiem that covers King's final months and assassination.
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Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J Non-Fiction, 973.0496. Presents the stories of 10 African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. Backmatter includes a Civil Rights timeline, sources and further reading. Illustrated by a two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient.
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Maya Angelou
by Judith E. Harper
J Biography, ANGELOU. Describes the life and writing career of the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," as well as her victory over such obstacles as prejudice, poverty, and abuse.
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March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
by Melba Pattillo Beals
J Biography, BEALS. The Congressional Gold Medal-winning civil rights activist and author of the best-selling Warriors Don't Cry presents an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up in the face of adversity in the Jim Crow South.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Emma Lynch
J Biography, KING. Who was Martin Luther King Jr.? Why is he famous? How do we know about him? This series introduces you to the lives of famous men and women. Each illustrated life story is told by primary source material, encouraging you to discover how we find out about important people in history.
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Meet Martin Luther King Jr.
by Melody S. Mis
J Biography, KING. 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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Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Leader
by Robert E. Jakoubek
J Biography, KING. A critically acclaimed biography series of history's most notable African Americans includes straightforward and objective writing combined with important memorabilia and photographs.
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Rosa Parks: "Tired of Giving In"
by Anne E. Schraff
J Biography, PARKS. A full-color biography series features inspirational and contemporary African-Americans of interest to young people and who are important role models for all youngsters.
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Ida B. Wells-Barnett: A Voice against Violence
by Pat McKissack
J Biography, WELLS-BARNETT. A biography of the black woman journalist who campaigned for the civil rights of women and other minorities and was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
by Katherine Rawson
J EASY Reader, RAWSON. History recognizes the leadership and voice Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brought to the civil rights movement in 1960s America. A 30-foot tall statue of Dr. King gazes into the future full of hope for all humanity. His words of peace are carved in the walls of the monument as a reminder to all Americans of the power of peaceful protest.
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The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
J Fiction, CURTIS. When his parents decide it is time to visit Grandma, ten-year-old Kenny and his siblings, including the "juvenile delinquent" Byron, journey to Alabama during a dark period in American history. Newbery Honor. Coretta Scott King Honor.
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Stella by Starlight
by Sharon M. Draper
J Fiction, DRAPER. Stella lives in the segregated South—in Bumblebee, North Carolina, to be exact about it. Some stores she can go into. Some stores she can’t. Some folks are right pleasant. Others are a lot less so. To Stella, it sort of evens out, and heck, the Klan hasn’t bothered them for years. But one late night, later than she should ever be up, much less wandering around outside, Stella and her little brother see something they’re never supposed to see, something that is the first flicker of change to come, unwelcome change by any stretch of the imagination. As Stella’s community—her world—is upended, she decides to fight fire with fire. And she learns that ashes don’t necessarily signify an end.
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Who Was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
by Bonnie Bader
J Paperbacks, BADER. From organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the launching of the Civil Rights Movement, a fascinating biography traces the life of this extraordinary man who was an advocate of the poor and spoke out against racial and economic injustice until he was assassinated in 1968.
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The Undefeated
by Kwame Alexander
Picture Books, ALEXANDER. The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover celebrates black American heroism and culture in a picture-book rendering of his performance on ESPN's ""The Undefeated." Illustrated by the Caldecott Honor-winning artist of Henry's Freedom Box.
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Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
Picture Books, SANCHEZ VEGARA. Little Martin grew up in a family of preachers: his dad was a preacher, his uncle was a preacher, his grandfather was a preacher...so maybe he'd become a great preacher too. One day, a friend invited him to play at his house. Martin was shocked when his mother wouldn't let him in because he was black. That day he realized there was something terribly unfair going on. Martin believed that no one should remain silent and accept something if it's wrong. And he promised himself that--when he grew up--he'd fight injustice with the most powerful weapon of all: words.
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The Teachers March!: How Selma's Teachers Changed History
by Sandra Neil Wallace
New Picture Books, WALLACE. Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading the way.
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