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Summary: "From the daughter of one of America's most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace's legacy of hate -- and illuminates her journey towards redemption. Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the 'symbol of racial reconciliation' (Washington Post). In the summer of 1963, though, she was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KENNEDY, PEGGY WALLACE KENBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: "Introduces readers to two brave Black women who stood up against segregation, setting in motion the Montgomery Bus Boycott and showing the nation how positive change can start with a single defiant act"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 BAPMcDonough, Yona Zeldis.
Summary: In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET PARKSHurston, Zora Neale
Summary: In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HURCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 HURBragg, Rick.
Summary: A haunting memoir about growing up dirt-poor in the Alabama hills--and about moving on but never really being able to leave. The extraordinary gifts for evocation and insight and the stunning talent for story- telling that earned Rick Bragg a Pulitzer Prize for feature writing in 1996 are here brought to bear on the wrenching story of his own family's life. It is the story of a war-haunted,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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Summary: "This is the heartbreaking and uplifting tale of one woman who just wouldn't give up"--Cover, p. 4.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 976.1 HAWDurkin, Hannah
Summary: "Joining the ranks of Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks and Zora Neale Hurston's rediscovered classic Barracoon, an immersive and revelatory history of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to land on US soil, told through the stories of its survivors-the last documented survivors of any slave ship-whose lives diverged and intersected in profound ways"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: Chronicles the life and achievements of the NASA engineer and inventor, from his childhood to his accidental invention of the Super Soaker water gun.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Multi-Media Kits, Call number: KIT J ORAGNE WHOArchibald, John
Summary: On growing up in the American South of the 1960s--an all-American white boy--son of a long line of Methodist preachers, in the midst of the civil rights revolution, and discovering the culpability of silence within the church. "My dad was a Methodist preacher and his dad was a Methodist preacher," writes John Archibald. "It goes all the way back on both sides of my family. When I am at my best,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ARCHIBALD, JOHN ARCWooten, Neal
Summary: Neal Wooten grew up in a tiny community atop Sand Mountain, Alabama, where everyone was white and everyone was poor. Prohibition was still embraced. If you wanted alcohol, you had to drive to Georgia or ask the bootlegger sitting next to you in church. Tent revivals, snake handlers, and sacred harp music were the norm, and everyone was welcome as long as you weren't Black, brown, gay, atheist,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 WOOPatrick, 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 PATMara, 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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARHoose, Phillip M.
Summary: "Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melanie Kroupa Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB COLVIN HOOMeltzer, Brad.
Summary: Recounts Rosa Parks' daring effort to stand up for herself and other African Americans by helping to end segregation on public transportation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Bio I Am ParksJazynka, Kitson.
Summary: "Find out about the life of Rosa Parks and how her actions in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955 helped end racial segregation in America. This book follows the same standards as other National Geographic Readers with the same careful text, brilliant photographs, and fun approach that kids love. The life story of Rosa Parks has enduring lessons to teach us and this biography should appeal to kids,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Children's Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARGiovanni, Nikki.
Summary: An illustrated description of Rosa Parks' historic refusal to give up her seat on a bus that led to a boycott that lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama. One track of sound disc has page-turn signals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 GioCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARTaylor-Butler, Christine
Summary: On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat on a bus so a white man could sit. Almost overnight, she became an icon of the rapidly growing civil rights movement. Readers will find out how Parks continued to fight for African American civil rights after her famous arrest. They will also learn more about the racism and segregation that Parks and other African...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PARRockliff, Mara
Summary: "A picture book biography about Georgia Gilmore, the woman whose cooking helped feed and fund the Montgomery bus boycott of 1956"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Studio 2022
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Summary: "One journalist's memoir of her personal friendship with Harper Lee and her sister, drawing on the extraordinary access they gave her to share the story of their lives. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the best loved novels of the twentieth century. But for the last fifty years, the novel's celebrated author, Harper Lee, has said almost nothing on the record. Journalists have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Penguin Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEE, HARPER MILBrown, Willie Mae
Summary: "As the civil rights movement and the fight for voter rights unfold in Selma, Alabama, many things happen inside and outside the Brown family's home that do not have anything to do with the landmark 1965 march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. Yet the famous outrages which unfold on that span form an inescapable backdrop in this collection of stories. In one, Willie Mae takes it upon herself to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BROMcCaulley, Esau
Summary: "From the New York Times contributing opinion writer and award-winning author of Reading While Black, a riveting intergenerational account of his family's search for meaning and a place to call home in the American South. For much of his life, Esau McCaulley was taught to see himself as an exception: someone who, through hard work, faith, and determination, overcame childhood poverty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Convergent Books, an imprint of Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MCCParks, Rosa
Summary: The African American woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2000
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED PARLevinson, Cynthia
Summary: Meet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this picture book that proves you're never too little to make a difference. Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham's segregation laws, she spoke up. As she listened to the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB HENDRICKS LEVKohl, Herbert R.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2005