Shabazz, Ilyasah

Summary: Raised by her aunt until she is six, Betty, who will later marry Malcolm X, joins her mother and stepfamily in 1940s Detroit, where she learns about the civil rights movement.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2018

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC SHA

Smith, Elliott

Summary: During the turbulent 1960s, the reader's plot choices determine their role in the historic fight for equal rights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC SMI

Williams-Garcia, Rita.

Summary: In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIL

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIL

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC WIL

Vaught, Susan

Summary: Grandma Beans and Avadelle Richardson havent spoken in decades, and with her Alzheimer's Grandma Beans doesn't make a lot of sense. But when she tells Dani to find a secret key and envelope that she's hidden, Dani can't ignore her. Her investigation with the help of her friend, Indri, and her not-friend, Mac, takes them deep into the history of Oxford, Mississippi, and the riots surrounding the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2016

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Vaught 2016