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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
She put her life on the line and nearly lost it in the name of equality. Readers meet the outspoken civil rights activist whose speech appeared on national television despite President Johnson's attempts to block it, inspiring the Freedom Democrats as Fannie Lou Hamer took a stand for equal voting rights.
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English
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"James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King, Jr. had two very different life journeys -- but their paths fatally collide when Ray assassinates the world-renown civil rights leader. This book provides an inside look into both of their lives, the history of the time, and a blow-by-blow examination of the assassination and its aftermath."--Provided by publisher.
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English
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Bestselling author Reverend Al Sharpton brings to light the stories of the unsung heroes of the Civil Rights movement, drawing on his unique perspective in the history of the fight for social justice in America
While the world may know the major names of the Civil Rights movement, there are countless lesser-known heroes fighting the good fight to advance equal justice for all, heeding the call when no one else was listening, often risking their lives...
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English
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The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there than...
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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This series explores the greatest achievements in American history in the context of the time period, incorporating archival footage that captures the monumental events of yesteryear. See Martin Luther King and other brave African-American citizens that fought for equal rights in this in-depth documentary, showing the civil rights movement in 1959 and 1960: sit-ins, marches, boycotts and rallies in Montgomery, Ala., Brooklyn, N.Y., and Washington,...
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English
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In “Mighty Justice”, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital, from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right...
13) Alice Walker
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English
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Learn about the author of The Color Purple, Alice Worker
16) Radicals in their own time: four hundred years of struggle for liberty and equal justice in America
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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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English
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“Decca” Mitford lived a larger-than-life life: born into the British aristocracy—one of the famous (and sometimes infamous) Mitford sisters—she ran away to Spain during the Spanish Civil War with her cousin Esmond Romilly, Winston Churchill’s nephew, then came to America, became a tireless political activist and a member of the Communist Party, and embarked on a brilliant career as a memoirist and muckraking journalist...
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