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African American civil rights workers African Americans Civil rights African Americans Civil rights History 20th century Civil rights movements Civil rights movements Southern States History 20th century Civil rights movements Southern States History 20th century Juvenile literature Civil rights workers Southern States Southern States Race relations History 20th century United StatesPatrick, Denise Lewis
Summary: "From the time John Lewis asked Dr. Martin Luther King to help integrate a segregated school in his hometown as teenager, he never stopped organizing, from Freedom Rides, to the marches in Selma and Washington, and more. Introduce readers to his concept of getting into "good trouble" in this Level 3 Ready-to-Read book"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PATCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PATMitchell, Jerry
Summary: "An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MITBausum, Ann.
Summary: Bausum compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. The book shows how a common interest in justice created the convergent path that enabled these young men to meet as Freedom Riders on a bus journey south.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 323.092 BAUKidd, Ronald
Summary: Hoping that the arrival of Freedom Riders in her town will help her community shed its antiquated views, thirteen-year-old Billie is forced to confront her own mindset when things turn tragic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KIDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC KIDPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: "This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement."--Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1 PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.1196 PINAbranowicz, William
Summary: "This collection revisits key people and places in the civil rights movement, with photographs of locations throughout the south where significant events occurred during the Freedom Movement. The roughly 125 color photographs in the book range from portraits of prominent figures like John Lewis and Harry Belafonte to the barn where Emmett Till was murdered and the bus station where Freedom...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2021
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.0973 ABRSchwartz, Heather E.
Summary: "Uses primary sources to tell the story of the Freedom Riders during the U.S. Civil Rights Movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.11 SCHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Civil SchwartzLewis, John
Summary: Congressman John Lewis recounts his life, which began in rural poverty in Alabama, and included leadership of the movement to desegregate Nashville, a speech at the 1963 March on Washington, chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and election to the U.S. Congress from Georgia in 1986. "John Lewis tells his story of struggle in the civil rights movement, or fomradeship in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEWIS, JOHN LEWRosen, 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 ROSDent, Thomas C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.043 DENRoberts, Blain.
Contents: Introduction -- Making up white Southern womanhood : the democratization of the Southern lady -- Shop talk : ritual and space in the Southern black beauty parlor -- Homegrown royalty : white beauty contests in the rural South -- Thrones of their own : body and beauty contests among Southern black women -- Bodies politic : beauty and racial crisis in the civil rights era -- Conclusion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Univ of North Carolina Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 ROBLewis, John
Summary: "After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Top Shelf Productions 2015
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 LEWCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA GRAPHIC LEWBausum, Ann.
Summary: How did two youths-one raised in an all-black community in the deep South, the other brought up with only whites in the Midwest-become partners for freedom during the civil rights movement of the 1960s? Freedom Riders compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. It shows how a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 BAUContents: pt. 1. Fighting for my rights: one SNCC woman's experience, 1961-1964 -- pt. 2. Entering troubled waters: sit-ins, the founding of SNCC, and the freedom rides, 1960-1963 -- pt. 3. Movement leaning posts: the heart and soul of the southwest Georgia movement, 1961-1963 -- pt. 4. Standing tall: the southwest Georgia movement, 1962-1963 -- pt. 5. Get on board: the Mississippi movement through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Illinois Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.43 HOLHaskins, James
Summary: "A biography of John Lewis, Georgia Congressman and one of the 'Big Six' civil rights leaders of the 1960s, focusing on his youth and culminating in the voter registration drives that sparked 'Bloody Sunday,' as hundreds of people walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama. Includes a note by Congressman Lewis and a timeline"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J America HaskinsMcGuire, Danielle L.
Contents: "They'd kill me if I told" -- "Negroes every day are being molested" -- "Walking in pride and dignity" -- "There's open season on Negroes now" -- "It was like all of us had been raped" -- "A black woman's body was never hers alone" -- Sex and civil rights -- "Power to the ice pick!" -- Epilogue: "we all lived in fear for years."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.119 MCGMortensen, Lori
Summary: "The Civil Rights Movement brought about major changes in the United States, including the legal end of segregation between African-Americans and white Americans. Explore the points of view of the activists who fought for change and the people who opposed them through powerful primary sources and historical photos"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk Civil MortensenBond, Julian
Summary: "Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond's Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today's activists in the era of Black Lives Matter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 323.0975 BONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.0975 BONDailey, Jane Elizabeth
Summary: "In White Fright, acclaimed historian Jane Dailey offers a radical reinterpretation of the fight for African American rights, showing how that fight has been closely bound, both in terms of law and in the white imagination, to the question of interracialsex and marriage. White fear of black sexuality not only fueled the systems of exclusion and oppression under Jim Crow, she contends it was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.84 DAIWiegand, Wayne A.
Summary: "Wayne A. and Shirley A. Wiegand tell the comprehensive story of the integration of southern public libraries. As in other efforts to integrate civic institutions in the 1950s and 1960s, the determination of local activists won the battle against segregation in libraries. In particular, the willingness of young black community members to take part in organized protests and direct actions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 027.475 WIEHarris, Duchess.
Summary: John Lewis is an influential African American politician who played a key role in the civil rights movement. He raised awareness of racial discrimination and violence in the 1960s. This book explores Lewis's activism and political career. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEWIS HARDouglas, Deborah D.
Summary: The U.S. Civil Rights Trail offers a vivid glimpse into the story of Black America's fight for freedom and equality. From eye-opening landmarks to celebrations of triumph over adversity, experience a tangible piece of history with Moon U.S. Civil Rights Trail. Includes flexible itineraries, historic civil rights sites, the culture of the movement, expert insight, travel tools, and detailed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 DOUSummary: Contains interviews with some of the protesters. In May of 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. asked black people of Birmingham, Alabama to go to jail in the cause of racial equality. The adults were afraid to go to jail and so the school children marched and over 5000 of them were arrested. This lead to President Kennedy sponsoring the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the march on Washington. Portions of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Southern Poverty Law Center 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MIGLewis, John
Summary: This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 LEW1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 323 LEW