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Summary: Explores the March Against Fear, a protest started by James Meredith and taken up by other civil rights leaders after Meredith was shot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Partners 2017
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323 BAUNelson, Stanley
Summary: "After midnight on December 10, 1964, in Ferriday, Louisiana, African American Frank Morris awoke to the sound of breaking glass. Outside his home and shoe shop, standing behind the shattered window, Klansmen tossed a lit match inside the store, now doused in gasoline, and instantly set the building ablaze. A shotgun pointed to Morris's head blocked his escape from the flames. Four days later...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Louisiana State University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 NELWatson, Bruce
Summary: Using in-depth interviews with participants and residents, Watson brilliantly captures the tottering legacy of Jim Crow in Mississippi, while vividly portraying: the chaos that brought such national figures as Martin Luther King Jr. and Pete Seeger to the state, the courageous black citizens and Northern volunteers who refused to be intimidated in their struggle for justice, and the white...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010