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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.In June of 1964, three idealistic young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. They were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to the...
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
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.
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