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Anecdotes. bibliography Biographies. biography Biography. Essays. History. Juvenile works. Picture books. Poetry.Kurtz, Jane.
Summary: In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time -- long overdue -- for all people to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's words in language even the youngest reader can understand.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2008
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Summary: "On August 28, 1963, a quarter of a million activists and demonstrators from every corner of the United States convened for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It was there that they raised their voices in unison to call for racial and economic justice for all Black Americans, to call out inequities, and ultimately to advance the Civil Rights Movement. Every movement has its unsung...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSJoy, Angela
Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILPatrick, Denise Lewis
Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, but how did she come to be so brave?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PATWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: "A picture book biography of Diane Nash, a Civil Rights Movement leader at the side of Martin Luther King and John Lewis. Born in the 1940s in Chicago, Diane went on to take command of the Nashville Movement, leading lunch counter sit-ins and peaceful marches. Diane decides to fight not with anger or violence, but with love. With her strong words of truth and actions, she works to stop...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NASGolkar, Golriz
Summary: "Describes the life and accomplishments of American civil rights champion, statesman, and politician John Lewis. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative captions and sidebars, a phonetic glossary, a time line, a Think-About-It section, and an index"--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWWittenstein, Barry
Summary: "The true story behind the writing of Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINSantella, Andrew
Summary: Examines the life of the famous civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., from his early family life and experiences in education to his history-shaping speeches and the international responses to his assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINWilliams, Yohuru R.
Summary: "An enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ROBYoussef, Jagger
Summary: "No discussion of the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s is complete without a close look at Martin Luther King Jr. This carefully researched book is an invaluable source of biographical information and uses King's own powerful words to tell the story of his life and the fight for equality. The Montgomery bus boycott, the March on Washington, and the Civil Rights Act are among the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINMartin, Erica (Halcyenda Erica)
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 MARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 323.1196 MARLee, Sally
Summary: "Discusses the history and importance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as well as ways that Americans celebrate it."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pebble, a Capstone imprint 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 394.2 LEEKeith, LeeAnna
Summary: "A history of antiracist and abolitionist activism in the Civil War-era Republican Party"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEIHunter-Gault, Charlayne
Summary: "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.48 HUNEig, Jonathan
Summary: "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 who shook the world, the bestselling biographer gives us an intimate view of the courageous and often emotionally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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Summary: "A history of Floyd McKissick's 1969 plan to build a Black city in North Carolina, examining the story of the idealists who settled there, the obstacles that derailed the project, and what Soul City's saga says about Black opportunity, capitalism, and power then and now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books, Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.6 HEARosen, Richard A.
Summary: Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategic litigation campaign for civil rights, ultimately winning landmark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERS, JULIUS ROSMara, Wil.
Summary: Introduces the children to Rosa Parks who is a true American hero.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015