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Publisher
Button Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
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"Great lives in graphics reimagines the lives of extraordinary people in vivid technicolor, presenting 250+ fascinating facts. You may already know that Marin Luther King Jr. gave an important speech, but did you know he loved to play pranks on his sister? Or that he was once called Michael? This infographic retelling of Martin's story gives children a visual snapshot of his life and the world he grew up in, while educating them on everything from...
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"An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figures,...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
c2022.
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 24 cm
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"While the world may know the major names of the Civil Rights movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes fighting the good fight to advance equal justice for all, heeding the call when no one else was listening, often risking their lives and livelihoods in the process. This book shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things--like Pauli Murray, whose early work informed Thurgood Marshall's legal argument for Brown v. Board...
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"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Authentic historical footage is blended with colorful animations as students learn about the civil rights leader who challenged all Americans to turn his dream of freedom into reality.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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"The little-known story of an iconic photographer, whose work captured--and influenced--a critical moment in American history. Ernest Withers took some of the most legendary images of the 1950s and 60s: Martin Luther King Jr. riding a newly integrated bus in Montgomery, Alabama; Emmett Till's uncle pointing an accusatory finger across the courtroom at his nephew's killer. But from his position at the heart of the cultural revolution, Withers was simultaneously...
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Pub. Date
[2022]
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This moving memoir-in-verse tells about what it means to be an everyday activist and foot solider for racial justice, as Kathlyn recounts how she went from attending protests as a teenager to fighting as an adult for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday to become a national holiday.
13) I am MLK Jr
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the life and career of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xiii, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence. Born mixed race and with very fair skin and straight hair, White was able to "pass" for white. He leveraged this ambiguity as a reporter, bringing to light the darkest crimes in America and helping to plant the...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow the courageous journey of John Lewis, a civil rights hero, congressional leader, and human rights champion whose unwavering fight for justice spans the past 50 years. The son of sharecroppers, Lewis grew up in the segregated South and rose from Alabama's Black Belt to the corridors of power on Capitol Hill. His humble origins have forever linked him to those whose voices often go unheard.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 294 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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"A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward--written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists--including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
vi, 280 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Pivoting between the voices of a father and son, this unique work of oral history and memoir chronicles the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s through the words and experiences of one of its core architects.
20) Claudette Colvin
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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
51 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"A biography of Claudette Colvin in the She Persisted series"--
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