![Sweet land of liberty [downloadable ebook] / the forgotten struggle for civil rights in the North](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/77328@2x.jpg)
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Thomas J Sugrue
(277)
Summary: Sweet Land of Liberty is an epic, revelatory account of the abiding quest for justice in states from Illinois to New York, and of how the intense northern struggle differed from and was inspired by the fight down South.
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Summary: "A history of the African American civil rights movement, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary...
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Call #: J 323.1 AFR
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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![Child of the civil rights movement [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/77279@2x.jpg)
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Paula Young Shelton
(530)
Summary: Paula Young Shelton shares her memories of the civil rights movement and her involvement in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
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![Eyes on the prize [DVD] : America's civil rights years, 1954-1965](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46948@2x.jpg)
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Summary: The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
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Call #: DVD 323 EYE
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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![Marching for freedom [downloadable ebook] / walk together, children, and don't you grow weary](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/53747@2x.jpg)
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Elizabeth Partridge
(782)
Summary: This book recounts the three months of protest that took place before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery to promote equal rights and help African-Americans earn the right to vote.
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![Say it loud [eBook] / great speeches on civil rights and African American identity](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76468@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Collects the text and audio recordings of famous African American political speeches, by individuals ranging from Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to Condoleezza Rice and Barack Obama.
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![A thousand never evers [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/60804@2x.jpg)
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Shana Burg
(775)
Summary: 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...
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![The help [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52699@2x.jpg)
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Kathryn Stockett
(2,601,382)
Summary: In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town...
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![One with others : [a little book of her days]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/146140@2x.jpg)
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C. D Wright
(473)
Summary: The author returns to her native Arkansas and examines an explosive incident grounded in the Civil Rights Movement. Wright interweaves oral histories, hymns, lists, interviews, newspaper accounts,...
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Call #: 811.54 WRI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![A thousand never evers [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46071@2x.jpg)
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Shana Burg
Summary: A bold work of historical fiction about one African American girl who finds her voice in segregated Mississippi. In Kuckachoo, Mississippi, 1963, Addie Ann Pickett worships her brother Elias and...
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![A summer of Kings [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/61602@2x.jpg)
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by
Han Nolan
(499)
Summary: Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to live with her family.
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![On the road to freedom [downloadable ebook] / a guided tour of the civil rights trail](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76701@2x.jpg)
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Charles E. Cobb Jr
(60)
Summary: An award-winning black journalist takes a pilgrimage through the sites and landmarks of the civil rights movement as he journeys to key locales that served as a backdrop to important events of the...
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John Lewis
Series:
March
(27,275)
Summary: After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the...
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Call #: 323.1 LEW YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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![March. Book two [eBook]](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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John Lewis
Summary: After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the...
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by
Jonathan Eig
Summary: "The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"-- Provided by publisher.
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John M Dunn
Series:
World History Series
(1)
Summary: A historical overview of the movement for freedom and equality for blacks in the United States.
BOOK
Call #: 323.1 DUN YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
David L Chappell
(42)
Summary: Presents a controversial study of the civil rights movement after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., drawing upon congressional testimony, court cases, press releases, and other sources to document the battle over King's image and legacy.
BOOK
Call #: 323 CHA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![I am Martin Luther King, Jr. [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/227064@2x.jpg)
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Brad Meltzer
Summary: A biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. that tells the story of how he used nonviolence to lead the civil rights movement.
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Brad Meltzer
Series:
Ordinary People Change The World
(1,021)
Summary: A biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. that tells the story of how he used nonviolence to lead the civil rights movement.
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Call #: J P BIO KING
Location: Junior Picture Books - Biography
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by
Raymond Arsenault
(479)
Summary: They were black and white, young and old, men and women. In the spring and summer of 1961, they put their lives on the line, riding buses through the American South to challenge segregation in...
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Call #: 323.1 ARS
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
A. J. Baime
(338)
Summary: 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...
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Call #: B WHITE
Location: Adult Biographies
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![White lies [eAudio] : the double life of Walter F. White and America's darkest secret](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/251829@2x.jpg)
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A. J. Baime
Summary: 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...
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![White lies [eBook] : the double life of Walter F. White and America's darkest secret](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/251916@2x.jpg)
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A. J. Baime
(324)
Summary: 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...
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Selina Alko , illustrator
(265)
Summary: Presents quotes on civil rights from important and influential figures, including Queen Lili'uokalani, John Lewis, Nina Simone, and Barack Obama.
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Call #: J 323.1 WE
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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by
Susan Goldman Rubin
(173)
Summary: 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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Call #: J 323.1 RUB
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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by
Jerry Mitchell
(1,706)
Summary: Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement. His work played a central role in...
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Call #: 364.1523 MIT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![Race against time [eBook] : a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/218061@2x.jpg)
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Jerry Mitchell
(1,704)
Summary: Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement. His work played a central role in...
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Carole Boston Weatherford
(2,661)
Summary: Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.
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Call #: J P BIO HAMER
Location: Junior Picture Books - Biography
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Summary: When slavery ended in the United States, white America's opinion that blacks were second class citizens did not. For more than a century afterward African Americans struggled to obtain basic rights...
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Call #: 323.1 CIV YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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by
Larry Dane Brimner
(663)
Summary: 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...
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Call #: J 323.1 BRI
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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Cynthia Levinson
(1,648)
Summary: Nine-year-old Audrey Faye Hendricks intended to go places and do things like anybody else. So when she heard grown-ups talk about wiping out Birmingham's segregation laws, she spoke up. As she...
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Call #: J P BIO HENDRICKS
Location: Junior Picture Books - Biography
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by
Ilene Cooper
(206)
Summary: From a shy and fearful child, Eleanor Roosevelt grew up to be not only First Lady of the United States, but one of the most influential women in U.S. history. Hers is a remarkable story of doing the...
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Call #: J B ROOSEVELT
Location: Junior Biographies
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by
Angela Dalton
(166)
Summary: This book tells the true story of Nichelle Nichols and how she used her platform on Star Trek to inspire and recruit a new generation of diverse astronauts and many others in the space and STEM...
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Call #: J P BIO NICHOLS
Location: New Junior Picture Books - Biography
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by
Diane McWhorter
(83)
Summary: In this history of the modern Civil Rights movement, the author focuses on the monumental events that occurred between 1954 (the year of Brown v. the Board of Education) and 1968 (the year that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated.
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Call #: J 323.1 MCW
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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Russell Freedman
(1,219)
Summary: Covers the events surrounding and including the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the end of segregation on buses.
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Call #: J 323.1 FRE
Location: Junior Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![Freedom summer [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/139333@2x.jpg)
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Summary: "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...
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DVD
Call #: DVD 323.1196 FRE
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![March. [downloadable ebook] / Book One](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/77124@2x.jpg)
