![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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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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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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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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by
Jeanne Theoharis
(1,242)
Summary: The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks.
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Call #: 323 THE
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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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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Ann Bausum
(146)
Summary: 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...
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Call #: 323.1196 BAU YA
Location: YA Nonfiction
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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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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.
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Call #: 323 CHA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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by
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.
BOOK
Call #: J P BIO KING
Location: Junior Picture Books - Biography
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![I am Martin Luther King, Jr. [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/227064@2x.jpg)
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by
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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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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![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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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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by
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
Angela Joy
(662)
Summary: Mamie Till-Mobley is the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered while visiting the South in 1955. His death became a rallying point for the civil rights movement, but...
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Call #: J P BIO TILL-MOBLEY
Location: Junior Picture Books - Biography
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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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by
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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![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
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by
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
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by
Christine A Platt
(85)
Summary: Martin Luther King Jr became one of the most important civil rights leaders in America by fighting for equality for black people. Before he made history with his powerful speeches and peaceful...
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Call #: J B KING
Location: Junior Biographies
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![Martin Luther King, Jr. [downloadable ebook] / civil rights leader](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/77002@2x.jpg)
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by
Margaret Hall
(7)
Summary: An illustrated introduction to the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. Includes a time line and a glossary.
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Doreen Rappaport
Series:
Big Words
Summary: A brief biographical sketch of Martin Luther King, Jr., one of the greatest figures in the American civil rights movement.
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Call #: J P BIO KING
Location: Junior Picture Books - Biography
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John Lewis
(3,434)
Summary: Lewis' role in the Nashville Movement -- a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville through nonviolent sit-ins - made him a defining activist of his day and helped set the tone for the...
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Call #: B LEWIS
Location: Adult Biographies
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by
Bonnie Bader
Series:
Who Was-- ?
(2,100)
Summary: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and...
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Call #: J B WHO
Location: Junior Biographies
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by
Sarah Albee
(34)
Summary: Profiles the civil rights leader, discussing his career as a pastor, his fight for African American rights, and his legacy.
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Call #: J READER B KING
Location: Junior Readers Biographies
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by
Stokely Carmichael
(421)
Summary: Stokely Carmichael traces the dramatic changes in his own consciousness and that of black Americans that took place during the evolving movements of Civil Rights, Black Power, and Pan-Africanism....
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Call #: 305.896 CAR
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![Rosa Parks, modern day heroine [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/20135@2x.jpg)
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Summary: On the first of December, 1955, a black seamstress refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white man. The seamstress was Rosa Parks. She inspired others to organize against social injustice....
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DVD
Call #: DVD 323.4 ROS
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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![American experience [DVD]. Freedom riders](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54436@2x.jpg)
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Summary: This inspirational documentary is about a band of courageous civil-rights activists calling themselves the Freedom Riders. Gaining impressive access to influential figures on both sides of the issue,...
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DVD
Call #: DVD 323.1196 AME
Location: DVDs Nonfiction
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by
Jacqueline Houtman
(120)
Summary: Bayard Rustin believed that every human being deserves respect and dignity. As a child he was taught that we all have a duty to stand up to prejudice and discrimination, and that conflict must be...
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Call #: B RUSTIN YA
Location: YA Biographies
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![March. [downloadable ebook] / Book One](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/77124@2x.jpg)
