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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times bestselling novel and basis for the Academy Award-winning film—a timeless and universal story about the lines we abide by, and the ones we don’t—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness...
Aibileen is a black maid in 1962 Jackson, Mississippi, who’s always taken orders quietly, but lately she’s unable to hold her bitterness...
5) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first full biography in decades, 'King' mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
"Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's 1957, and after leaving the only home she has ever known, Alice Young steps off the bus into the all-Black town of New Jessup, Alabama, where residents have largely rejected integration as the means for Black social advancement. She falls in love with Raymond Campbell, whose clandestine organizing activities challenge New Jessup's status quo and could lead to the young couple's expulsion-or worse-from the home they hold dear. But as Raymond...
Author
Publisher
Southern Poverty Law Center
Pub. Date
©2014
Language
English
Description
In text and photographs, describes the history of the crusading lawsuits and causes of the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization founded in Montgomery, Alabama, by lawyers Morris Dees and Joe Levin. Includes accounts of the organization's founding in the wake of the civil rights movement; its many legal battles against the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacist groups; its lawsuits on behalf of minorities, prisoners, children,...
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Language
English
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Description
"James Baldwin grew disillusioned by the failure of the Civil Rights movement to force America to confront its lies about race. In the era of Trump, what can we learn from his struggle? "Not everything is lost. Responsibility cannot be lost, it can only be abdicated. If one refuses abdication, one begins again." --James Baldwin We live, according to Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., in the after times, when the promise of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to...
11) I have a dream
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Across history, activists have worked, marched, and spoken out for equality and justice--and many had moving, relatable childhood stories. Martin Luther King Jr. argued with his dad about whether dancing was a sin. Harvey Milk had a passion for opera. Dolores Huerta was wrongly accused of plagiarizing. Kid activists tells these stories and more through engaging biographies and full-color illustrations on nearly every page. Learn about Susan B. Anthony,...
Author
Series
Hispanic heritage volume 6
Publisher
Abdo & Daughters
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Loretta, Roly, and Aggie B. Little relate their Mississippi family's struggles and triumphs from 1927 to 1968 while struggling as sharecroppers, living under Jim Crow, and fighting for Civil Rights.
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the history of race relations in the United States, focusing on the civil rights movement that began in 1954 with the Supreme Court ruling against segregation in public schools.
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