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Publisher
Kaepernick Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"INTRODUCING THE NEXT GENERATION OF YOUNG READERS TO ONE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S MOST COURAGEOUS FREEDOM FIGHTERS, YURI KOCHIYAMA (1921 -- 2014). Debut children's picture book author Kai Naima Williams -- great-granddaughter of Yuri Kochiyama -- intimately chronicles the experiences and lessons, hardships and victories, and people and places that shaped Yuri's life and influenced her activism. From Yuri's incarceration in a Japanese-American concentration...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books. an Imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Dear Ruby, Hear Our Hearts is a compilation of letters from concerned young students about today's issues, including bullying, climate change, gun violence, and racism. Reading Ruby's intuitive and inspirational responses, young readers will embrace the courage to be brave, bold, and confident"--
"National civil rights activist and icon Ruby Bridges responds to letters from thoughtful and concerned young students from across America."I've heard...
Author
Publisher
Regalo Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The remarkable story of a couple who came together during the civil rights movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers' rights their purpose for more than sixty years, overcoming adversity--with the strength of their love and commitment--to bring about meaningful change. "A chronicle of lives of unwavering dedication. Now in their 80s, labor and civil rights activists Norman and Velma Hill recount more than six decades of struggles,...
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Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"It's May 1963, and twelve-year-old Nina Norris is answering a call from civil rights leaders in Birmingham, Alabama. Black Americans are demanding the right to vote, but adults who protest risk losing their jobs. So, children are protesting in their place. As Nina prepares for her day, she knows she will likely be arrested and put in jail, but it's a price she is willing to pay so that all people can have a say in their government. Readers can learn...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
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.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Voting gives people a voice in their communities. In the past, racist laws and practices kept Black American voices silent. No place was more affected by this racism than the state of Mississippi. In 1964, organizers and volunteers brought change to Mississippi. This movement to register Black voters became known as Freedom Summer, and it led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Discover the people, events, and results of Freedom Summer...
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Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In this sociology-based history, Bobby J. Smith II uses archival research, interviews, and oral histories to unearth a food story buried deep within the soil of American civil rights history. Thinking with multiple disciplines, including critical food studies, Black studies, history, sociology, agri-food studies, and southern studies, Smith uncovers a neglected period of the movement--what he calls the food story of the Mississippi civil rights movement--when...
Author
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Generations of Black activists and intellectuals -- from Ida B. Wells in the fight against lynching, to Angela Y. Davis in the fight against the prison-industrial complex -- have stood within a tradition of Black Antifascism . . . The book explores the powerful ideas and activism of Paul Robeson, Mary McLeod Bethune, Claudia Jones, W.E. B. DuBois, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Walter Rodney, as well as that of the Civil Rights Congress, the...
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The return to print of a classic novel of postwar American literature credited with being the most accurate fictional portrayal of the promises and bitter disappointments that heralded the expatriation of Black intellectuals and artists. The protagonist of John Williams's angry and brilliant novel The Man Who Cried I Am is Max Reddick, a Black American writer-a gifted novelist, a journalist, and a presidential speechwriter-who has spent his career...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
The first full-length biography of civil rights hero and congressman John Lewis.
"For six decades John Robert Lewis (1940-2020) was a towering figure in the U.S. struggle for civil rights. As an activist and progressive congressman, he was renowned for his unshakable integrity, indomitable courage, and determination to get into "good trouble." In this first book-length biography of Lewis, Raymond Arsenault traces Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama,...
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