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African Americans Alabama Montgomery Biography Juvenile literature African Americans Civil rights Civil rights workers Emperor of Rome Augustus 63 B.C.-14 A.D Drama Illustrated children's books Montgomery (Ala.) Biography Juvenile literature Parks, Rosa 1913-2005 Parks, Rosa 1913-2005 Juvenile literature Race relations Trials (Murder)Cowie, Jefferson
Summary: A prize-winning historian chronicles the long-running clash between white people and federal authority by focusing on Barbour County, Alabama and its history of fighting Reconstruction, integration, and the New Deal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2022
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Summary: How did two teenagers brutally murder an innocent child ... and why? And how did their brilliant lawyer save them from the death penalty in 1920s Chicago? Written by a prolific master of narrative nonfiction, this is a compulsively readable true-crime story based on an event dubbed the "crime of the century." In 1924, eighteen-year-old college students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb made a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anne Schwartz Books 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 364.152 FLECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 364.152 FLESummary: The passing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 represented not the culmination of the Civil Rights Movement, but the beginning of a new, crucial chapter. Nowhere was this next battle better epitomized than in Lowndes County, Alabama, a rural, impoverished county with a vicious history of racist terrorism. In a county that was 80 percent Black but had zero Black voters, laws were just paper...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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 BAPCenturyLink
Summary: Includes -- Bear Lake -- Benzonia -- Beulah -- Burdickville -- Cedar -- Elk Rapids -- Empire -- Fife Lake -- Glen Arbor -- Glen Lake -- Hannah -- Honor -- Interlochen -- Karlin -- Kingsley -- Lake Ann -- Lake Leelanau -- Lime Lake -- Little Traverse Lake -- Maple City -- Mayfield -- Northport -- Summit City -- Suttons Bay -- Traverse City -- Williamsburg.
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Publisher / Publication Date: CenturyLink 0000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: R PHONE 2017 CenturyLinkPerry, Kenneth A.
Contents: v. 1. Articles 1-700, October 1847-February 1850 -- v. 2. Articles 701-1100, compiled from February 1850-September 1862 -- v. 3. Articles 1101-1550, compiled from October 1862-October 1873 -- v. 4. Articles 1551-2141, compiled from September 1867-August 1878, with supplemental articles, 2142-2161s, and 2500-2504.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Books 1999
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: GEN 929.3747 FITCHKeyes, Edward.
Summary: The true story of the savage coed killings---by the boy who could have lived next door! Southeastern Michigan was rocked in the late 1960s by the terrifying serial murders of young women, whose bodies were dumped in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti. In each case, few clues were left at the scene, and six separate police agencies were unable to end the horror. Then, almost by accident, a break came. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Michigan Press 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 364 KEYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 KEYMicklos, John
Summary: "The bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House took place in May 1864. The frantic back-and-forth fighting at an area now called the Bloody Angle was among the fiercest single-day battles of the entire Civil War. How did the bullet-riddled stump of a once-mighty oak tree there become a symbol of the conflict? What can its story tell us about that day's battle and the broader history of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 MICStanton, Mary
Summary: First full-length biography of the only white woman honored at the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Georgia Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 STAReasoner, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC REARader, Robert Dwight.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Village Press 1977
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1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 977.4635 RADBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: "A picture book biography about Claudette Colvin, the teen whose activism launched the Montgomery bus boycott, and a celebration of collective action"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLRauch, John G.
Summary: This personal history of the north shore of Little Traverse Bay, including Harbor Springs, was compiled by John G. Rauch, a summer resident of the Forest Beach resort close by Harbor Springs. Reprinted from the Harbor Light Newspaper, 1973.
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Publisher / Publication Date: North Country Publishing Company 0000
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL 977.488 RAUMann, Charles C.
Summary: "1493 for Young People by Charles C. Mann tells the gripping story of globalization through travel, trade, colonization, and migration from its beginnings in the fifteenth century to the present. How did the lowly potato plant feed the poor across Europe and then cause the deaths of millions? How did the rubber plant enable industrialization? What is the connection between malaria, slavery, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Triangle Square/Seven Stories Press 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 909.08 MANHager, Thomas
Summary: During the roaring twenties, two of the most revered and influential men in American business proposed to transform one of the country's poorest regions into a dream technological metropolis, a shining paradise of small farms, giant factories, and sparkling laboratories. Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's "Detroit of the South" would be ten times the size of Manhattan, powered by renewable energy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.980 HAGJones, Doug (G. Douglas)
Summary: "The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Senator Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama was bombed. The blast killed four young girls and injured twenty-two others. The FBI suspected four particularly radical Ku Klux Klan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: All Points Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 323.1196 JONSmith, Nelson Foot
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reprint Co. 1980
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 976.1 SMIFreedman, Russell
Summary: To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1965 march for voting rights from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, Newbery Medalist Freedman presents a riveting account of this pivotal event in the history of civil rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.1196 FRESummary: In the year 44 B.C., Julius Caesar has been assassinated and civil war threatens to destroy the Republic. In the void left by Caesar's demise, egos clash and numerous players jockey for position. The brutally ambitious Mark Antony attempts to solidify his power, aligning himself with Atia, but coming to blows with her cunning son Octavian, who has been anointed in Caesar's will as his only son...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2007
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Summary: The fictionalized biography of Ana Klobuchar Clemenc (1888-1956), daughter of Slovenian immigrants, who worked for Socialist causes and was an important figure in the 1913 Camulet copper miners' strike in the Upper Peninsula.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enterprise Press 1987
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1 available in Michigan Room, Call number: MI 921 Burns 1987Neumann, Glenn
Contents: Issues of: 1883, 1884 and 1885
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elk Rapids Historical Society 1998