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African Americans African Americans Fiction Civil rights movements Drama Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines) 1908-1973 Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Drama Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Fiction Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 Juvenile fiction Racism Fiction Racism Juvenile fiction Video recordings for the hearing impairedStone, Nic
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC STOPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: For Black History Month, Ana & Andrew join a research group at the Community Center. They learn many interesting things about Martin Luther King Jr.! Later, with the help of some other children, they make one of Martin's famous dreams come true.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2021
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Summary: Intertwining the stories of two Black students decades apart, this compelling and honest novel follows Kevin and Gibran as they navigate similar forms of insidious racism while discovering who they want to be instead of what society tells them they are.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kokila 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ALLEvans, Shane.
Summary: Illustrations and brief text portray the events of the 1963 march in Washington, D.C., where the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. delivered a historic speech.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2012
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE EVACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE EVAStone, Nic
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STOSummary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in a "whites only" section of a public bus, thus starting a boycott of the city buses. This single act is considered the beginning of the civil rights movement in the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s historical struggle to secure voting rights for all people. A dangerous and terrifying campaign that culminated with an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1964.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SELCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SELCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Selma 2015Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEL RATED PG-13Summary: Bryan Cranston stars in a riveting look at the formidable challenges and demons faced by President Lyndon Johnson on his tumultuous first year in office, from his accidental ascension to the presidency in November 1963, to his relentless fight to win passage of a landmark Civil Rights Bill with the election of 1964 looming.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ALLMcNamara, Margaret
Summary: As they celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the kids in Mrs. Connor's class share their hopes and dreams and imagine how to make the world a better place to honor the important holiday.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2023
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN MCNClark-Robinson, Monica
Summary: Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CLACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CLAHill, Donna (Donna O.)
Summary: Follows the 1964 Civil Rights-era relationship between a passive-resistance protaegae of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a Harlem black culture supporter of Malcolm X.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Sideways Books 2020