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Publisher
Copper Canyon Press
Language
English
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The author returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts, and personal memories--especially those of her mentor, V--as she draws directly upon the voices of witnesses, neighbors, police, activists, and a group of black students at the eye of the storm.
2) The help
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Language
English
Description
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"1965: Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register Black voters. As Ellie follows her ideals, fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized...
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Language
English
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On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial looking out over thousands of troubled Americans who had gathered in the name of civil rights and uttered his now famous words, "I have a dream..." It was a speech that changed the course of history.
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband and pregnant with another man's baby. After tragedy strikes her husband in the war overseas, a numb Rose is left with pieces of who she used to be and is forced to figure out what she is going to do with the rest of her life. Her sister introduces her to members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee-- young people are taking risks and fighting battles...
6) The chamber
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Language
English
Description
In 1967, Mississippi Clan member Sam Cayhall's trial for bombing a law office ends in a hung jury. In 1979, an ambitious DA reopens the case and Cayhall is convicted. In 1990, a young Chicago lawyer, Adam Hall, asks to work on the case. With time running out and Cayhall facing the death penalty, what is Hall's interest?
Author
Language
English
Description
Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. It's 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmother's historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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.
Series
Publisher
Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services, Inc
Pub. Date
c2017
Language
English
Description
American civil rights literature has largely been associated with speeches, letters, and non-fiction works produced by African-American activists of the 1950s and 60s such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X. This volume not only examines key works of the African-American civil rights debate past and present, it also explores issues of gender equality and sexual orientation integral to civil rights studies. This new addition to the Critical...
Author
Publisher
Greenwood
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Overview: Civil Rights Movement provides a comprehensive reference guide to this momentous cultural evolution that starts in the 1930s. By beginning the story of how African Americans have long attempted to improve their lives while facing severe legislative, judicial, and political constraints, the author dispels the common misconception that black people only started their struggle to achieve equality in the mid 1950s. The book discusses all of...
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"In words and vivid pen-and-watercolor illustrations, journalist Christopher Noxon dives into the real stories behind the front lines of the Montgomery bus boycott and the Greensboro lunch counter sit-ins and notable figures such as Rosa Parks and Bayard Rustin, all while exploring the parallels between the civil rights movement era and the present moment." --provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with historical photos interspersed throughout. In stunning verse and vivid use of white space, Erica Martin's debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement--from the well-documented events that shaped the nation's treatment of Black people, beginning with the "Separate but Equal"...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
David Falkner, noted author of five previous books about baseball, deftly portrays the rise to stardom of Jackie Robinson, the first African-American to play on a major-league team in baseball's modern era. As Falkner traces the development of Robinson's natural skill and tireless dedication, he focuses on the strengths that earned Robinson a unique place on the diamond and in the struggle for civil rights. This compelling biography illuminates a...
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