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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 116 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
In the hot and deadly summer of 1964, the nation could not turn away from Mississippi. Over 10 memorable weeks known as Freedom Summer, more than 700 student volunteers joined with organizers and local African Americans in a historic effort to shatter the foundations of white supremacy in one of the nation's most segregated states -- even in the face of intimidation, physical violence, and death.
Author
Publisher
Baker Books, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Internationally known author, speaker, and activist offers a timely, rousing memoir filled with engaging personal stories from the Civil Rights era to the present, calling the church to repent, forgive, and move from racism and bigotry to love and reconciliation.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1932, the city of Natchez, Mississippi, reckoned with an unexpected influx of journalists and tourists as the lurid story of a local murder was splashed across headlines nationwide. Two eccentrics, Richard Dana and Octavia Dockery ... enlisted an African American man named George Pearls to rob their reclusive neighbor, Jennie Merrill, at her estate. During the attempted robbery, Merrill was shot and killed. The crime drew national coverage when...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
vii, 120 p., [4] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission compiled secret files on more than 87,000 private citizens in the most extensive state spying program in U.S. history. Its mission: to save segregation.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Partners
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1140L
Physical Desc
143 pages : black & white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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
Binge Box
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Whose Streets?, Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, and The Central Park Five.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This Binge box explorers contemporary social inequality in America.
Titles included: The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Whose Streets?, Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, and The Central Park Five.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
vii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Fannie Lou Hamer, who was a champion of civil rights; despite fierce prejudice and abuse, from the 1950s until her death in 1977.
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