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Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Lauren Drain's childhood seemed average American, but when her liberal-minded father set out to film a documentary about the audacious and cultish hate group, the Westboro Baptist Church, he found himself seduced. At 14, Lauren was moved with her family to Kansas to live in the Westboro compound. There, Lauren found a new community offering both a warm welcome and a complex set of rules and regulations, including curbs on her teenage freedom and punishments...
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Northern Ireland's darkest day.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaginated) : color illustrations ; 25 x 29 cm
Description
Mari is getting ready to make a sign with crayon as the streets below her fill up with people. "What are we making, Mama?" she asks. "A message for the world," Mama says. "How will the whole world hear?" Mari wonders. "They'll hear," says Mama, "because love is powerful." Inspired by a girl who participated in the January 2017 Women's March in New York City, Heather Dean Brewer's simple and uplifting story, delightfully illustrated by LeUyen Pham,...
Author
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
159 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King. The adults are trying to get more attention to their cause--to show that separate is not equal. Rufus's dad works at the local steel factory, and his mom is a cook at the mill. If they participate in marches, their bosses will fire them. So that's where...
Author
Appears on list
Description
Twenty-five-year-old Alice Paul returns to her native New Jersey after several years on the front lines of the suffrage movement in Great Britain. Weakened from imprisonment and hunger strikes, she is nevertheless determined to invigorate the stagnant suffrage movement in her homeland. Nine states have already granted women voting rights, but only a constitutional amendment will secure the vote for all. To inspire support for the campaign, Alice organizes...
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
105 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
Describes the 1963 March on Washington, helmed by Martin Luther King, Jr., where over two hundred thousand people gathered to demand equal rights for all races, and explains why this event is still important in American history today.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xiv, 177 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
"The former governor of Virginia tells the behind-the-scenes story of the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville--and shows how we can prevent other Charlottesvilles from happening. When Governor Terry McAuliffe hung up the phone on the afternoon of the violent Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, he was sure Donald Trump would do the right thing as president: condemn the white supremacists who'd descended on the college town and who'd...
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Description
Filled with inspiring photos of children at the Women's March on Washington and other protests and rallies, this book also includes inspirational quotes, simple ideas for how kids can get involved, brief definitions of concepts like "equality" and "feminism," and an introduction from a leading activist who's making a difference in the world today.
Publisher
PBS Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
7 DVDs (120 min. each) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vols. 1-3 tell the story of America's civil rights years from 1954 to 1965; vols. 4-7 examine the new America from 1966 to 1985, from community power to the human alienation of urban poverty.
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xiv, 222 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) portraits, photographs ; 24 cm
Description
"Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success story, he joined the army to pay forcollege. He saw action in Iraq and returned home with PTSD. Believing in the promise of our government, he focused on healing himself and supporting his family. His hard work paid off when he landed...
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018].
Physical Desc
319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Description
On January 21, 2017, the day after Donald J. Trump's inauguration, more than three million marchers of all ages and walks of life took to the streets as part of the largest protest in American history. In red states and blue states, in small towns and major urban centers, from Boise to Boston, Bangkok to Buenos Aires, people from eighty-two countries on all seven continents rose up in solidarity to voice a common message: Hear our voice. It became...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Situado durante los extraordinarios eventos del 6 de enero del 2021, este libro de memorias de Aquilino Gonell tiene como base las luchas y alegrias de la experiencia migrante las cuales han definido el experimento norteamericano"--
"Aquilino Gonell came to the United States from the Dominican Republic as a young boy. Although he spoke no English, he dedicated himself to his adopted land, striving for the American dream. Determined to be a success...
Publisher
[Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment]
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
November, 1999. A peaceful demonstration to stop the World Trade Oraganization talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot, and soon a State of Emergency is declared by the Mayor of Seattle. The streets are mayhem, and the WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire of civil liberties and keeping the peace are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a SWAT riot officer on the streets and his pregnant wife. The choices they all make will...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
143 pages : black & white illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Witness the compelling and dramatic story of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech. This watershed event in the Civil Rights Movement helped change the face of America. Recounts the events when 250,000 people came together to form the largest demonstration the young American democracy had ever seen.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations, photographs ; 26 cm.
Description
For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.
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