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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
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Description
"This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement."--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxv, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Compiled from his original lecture notes, Julian Bond's Time to Teach brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today's activists in the era of Black Lives Matter."--
Compiled from his original lecture notes, Bond's book brings his invaluable teachings to a new generation of readers and provides a necessary toolkit for today's activists in the era of Black Lives Matter and #MeToo. Beginning...
3) John Lewis
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
47 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xiv, 193 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African-Americans in the South.
As the Civil Rights Movement exploded across the United States, the media of the time was able to show the rest of the world images of horrific racial violence. And while some of the bravest people of the 20th century risked their lives for the right to simply order a cheeseburger, ride a bus, or use a clean water fountain, there was another virtually unheard of...
Author
Publisher
Yearling Book
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st Yearling ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
xv, 301 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the civil rights movement in the South gains momentum in 1963--and violence against African Americans intensifies--the black residents, including seventh-grader Addie Ann Pickett, in the small town of Kuckachoo, Mississippi, begin their own courageous struggle for racial justice.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
©2011
Edition
Abridged ed.
Physical Desc
xiv, 306 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a comprehensive study of the 1961 Freedom Rides from Washington DC to the deep south that challenged the segregated transit laws, and describes the brutal confrontation between the riders and the Ku Klux Klan in Alabama and Mississippi.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Hightlights
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
111 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
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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