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National GeographicReid, Joy-Ann Lomena
Summary: Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 REICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 REIWilliams, Michael Vinson
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arkansas Press 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EVERS. MEDGAR WILWatson, Bruce
Summary: "In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called "Freedom Summer." But on the evening after volunteers arrived, three young civil rights workers went...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Stories Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 WATBowers, Rick
Summary: In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011