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Quick view Martin Luther King Jr.: Great Civil Rights Leader by Jennifer Fandel A biography telling the life story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and his leadership in the civil rights movement to stop racism, segregation, and discrimination in the United States. Written in graphic-novel format. View Details
Quick view Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney Andrea Davis Pinkney's moving text and Stephen Alcorn's glorious portraits celebrate the lives of ten bold women freedom fighters of the civil rights movement. View Details
Quick view What They Fought for 1861- by James M McPherson From the author of Battle Cry of Freedom comes an exceptional and highly original Civil War analysis. McPherson draws on the letters and diaries of nearly 1,000 Union and Confederate soldiers, giving voice to the very men who risked their lives in the... View Details
Quick view To Be a Slave by Julius Lester Readers learn about the lives of countless slaves and former slaves, who tell about their forced journeys from Africa to the United States, their work in the fields and houses of their owners, and their passion for freedom. Illustrations. View Details
Quick view Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: My Story of the Selma Voting Rights March hc by Lynda Blackmon Lowery A 50th-anniversary tribute shares the story of the youngest person to complete the momentous Selma to Montgomery March, describing her frequent imprisonments for her participation in nonviolent demonstrations and how she felt about her involvement in... View Details
Quick view The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader: Documents, Speeches, and Firsthand Accounts from the Black Freedom Struggle by Clayborne Carson A record of one of the greatest and most turbulent movements of this century, The Eyes on the Prize Civil Rights Reader is essential for anyone interested in learning how far the American civil rights movements has come and how far it has to go. View Details
Quick view Freedom Riders: John Lewis and jim Zwerg on the Front Line of the Civil Rights Movement by Ann Bausum Examining the lives of two Nashvillians--one white and one black--in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of the nation's past, Bausum shows how a common interest in justice enabled these young men to meet as Freedom... View Details
Quick view Fire Next Time by James A Baldwin At once a powerful evocation of his childhood in Harlem and a disturbing examination of the consequences of racial injustice, The Fire Next Time, which galvanized the nation in the early days of the Civil Rights movement, stands as one of the essential... View Details
Quick view Thr Classic Slave Narratives by Henry Louis Gates Henry Louis Gates, Jr., presents a seminal volume of four classic slave narratives, including the 1749 texts of The Life of Olaudah Equiano, the last edition corrected and published in his lifetime. The collection also includes perhaps the best known... View Details
Quick view Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American historyBorn a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton... View Details
Quick view Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin In the Deep South of the 1950s, journalist John Howard Griffin decided to cross the color line. Using medication that darkened his skin to deep brown, he exchanged his privileged life as a Southern white man for the disenfranchised world of an... View Details
Quick view Freedom's Children by Ellen S Levine Thirty African-Americans who were children during the 1950s and 1960s tell their true stories of what it was like for them to fight segregation in the South. A "School Library Journal" Best Book of the Year. View Details