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Author
Publisher
Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
1st edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 522 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 22 cm + 1 foldout map
Language
English
Description
The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom and equality. From eye-opening landmarks to celebrations of triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail. Includes flexible itineraries, historic civil rights sites, the culture of the movement, expert insight, travel tools, and detailed coverage of Charleston, Atlanta, Selma to Montgomery, Birmingham,...
2) Double victory: how African American women broke race and gender barriers to help win World War II
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
An account of the lesser-known contributions of African-American women during World War II reveals how they helped lay the foundations for the Civil Rights Movement by challenging racial and gender barriers at home and abroad.
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hoping that the arrival of Freedom Riders in her town will help her community shed its antiquated views, thirteen-year-old Billie is forced to confront her own mindset when things turn tragic.
"Personally I don't mind them coming here but they might bother some of my customers. Thirteen-year old Billie Sims has heard things like this all her life, from the grocer down the road, from her neighbors at church, from her parents. But Billie never understood...
6) Rosa
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Language
English
Description
A biography about Rosa Parks, the Alabama black seamstress who refused to give up her seat on a bus and helped establish the civil rights movement.
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
48 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Martin Luther King Jr., the iconic civil rights leader, was born into a world where he did not enjoy the same rights or opportunities as white Americans. Yet, he prompted great societal change through remarkable, peaceful means. This compelling and comprehensive biography takes readers on the journey of King's life from young Georgia pastor to the iconic trailblazer who met a tragic end. A timeline provides a summary of significant moments in King's...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Martin Luther King Jr. that tells the story of how he used nonviolence to lead the civil rights movement"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Gareth Stevens
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
No discussion of the civil rights movement of the 1960s is complete without a close look at Martin Luther King Jr. This book is an invaluable source of biographical information that uses King's own immensely powerful words to tell the story of his life and the fight for equality. The Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the Civil Rights Act are just some historic events described. Readers will find that King's words still resonate...
Author
Publisher
H.Holt
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Description
Arc of Justice artfully captures a tumultuous period in American history as it tells a shocking story of violence and racial strife. The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself-resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Physical Desc
xiv, 746 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on the American Civil Rights Movement.
In the second volume of his three-part history, a monumental trilogy that began with Parting the Waters, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climactic struggles as they commanded the national stage.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the pen of a singular and indispensable black woman journalist....
Author
Publisher
NewSouth Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
351 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Even forty years after the civil rights movement, the transition from son and grandson of Klansmen to field secretary of SNCC seems quite a journey. In the early 1960s, when Bob Zellner's professors and classmates at a small church school in Alabama thought he was crazy for even wanting to do research on civil rights, it was nothing short of remarkable. Now, in his long-awaited memoir, Zellner tells how one white Alabamian joined ranks with the black...
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