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Books @ Noon January 2021 picks
Honoring Black History Month in Small Business
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Discussion Group
Honoring Black History Month in Small Business
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Uncle Tom's Cabin Book Discussion Group
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Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...
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2014.
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"Years before the landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education, Sylvia Mendez, an eight-year-old girl of Mexican and Puerto Rican heritage, played an instrumental role in Mendez v. Westminster, the landmark desegregation case of 1946 in California"--
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It was 1961. John Lewis and Jim Zwerg are two young men boarding a bus and heading south for Montgomery, Alabama and the thick of the brewing Civil Rights struggle. They are idealists, committed to justice and equality and full of hope for change. This is their Freedom Ride. Arriving in town, suddenly they find themselves helpless in the clutches of an angry white mob armed with bats, chains, and hammers. Both men are beaten within an inch of their...
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Magnolia Home Entertainment
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[2017]
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English
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Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
Malcolm X Day: Movies & Documentaries
Recommended Movies by Black Directors
Malcolm X Day: Movies & Documentaries
Recommended Movies by Black Directors
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Master documentary filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished. The result is a radical, up-to-the-minute examination of race in America, using Baldwin2s original words and a flood of rich archival material. A journey into black history that connects the past of the Civil Rights movement to the present of #BlackLivesMatter.
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"A disgraced journalist moves into her great-aunt's secret-laden farmhouse and discovers that the women in her family were testaments to true love and courage in the face of war, persecution, and racism as readers are taken on an emotional journey through time from the volatile streets of 1960s Detroit to the Underground Railroad during the Civil War"--
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In this Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year, Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child’s unique perspective to an important chapter in America’s history. Paula grew up in the deep south, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened...
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Beacon Press
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In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African Americans abroad are as powerful today as when they were first written. With documentaries like I Am Not Your Negro bringing renewed interest to Baldwin's life and work, Notes of a Native Son serves as a valuable introduction.
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays...
Written during the 1940s and early 1950s, when Baldwin was only in his twenties, the essays...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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2018.
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English
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:Ernie Barnes was an NFL football player who longed to make art. Finally his dream came true. When Ernie Barnes was growing up in North Carolina in the 1940s, he loved to draw. Even when he played as a boy with his friends he drew with a stick in the mud. And he never left home without a sketchbook. He would draw families walking home from church, or the old man on the sofa. He drew what he saw. But in the segregated south, Ernie didn?t know how to...
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Henry Holt and Company
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2022.
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English
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"The author of Moses: When Harriet Tubman Led Her People to Freedom and the author of Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag combine their tremendous talents for a singular picture book biography of Bayard Rustin, the gay Black man behind the March on Washington of 1963"--
16) March: Book one
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March volume 1
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Top Shelf Productions
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2013.
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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"Winner of the Stowe Prize, Harriet Beecher Stowe Center" "Longlisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards, Personal Development & Human Behavior Category" "A NationSwell Book of the Year" "Finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems" "Shortlisted for the getAbstract International Book Award 2023, Business Impact Category" Ruha Benjamin is an internationally recognized writer, speaker, and professor of African...
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Awesome Nonfiction Audiobooks
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
Seen on Ashland Peeps: White Fragility
Civil Rights, Racism, and Talking About Race as a White Person
Seen on Ashland Peeps: White Fragility
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Named one of the most important nonfiction books of the 21st century by Entertainment Weekly‚ Slate‚ Chronicle of Higher Education‚ Literary Hub, Book Riot‚ and Zora
A tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller—"one of the most influential books of the past 20 years," according to the Chronicle of Higher Education—with a new preface by the author
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...19) The undefeated
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Caldecott Medal | Winners and Honorees | 2020-Current
Children's Books for Juneteenth
Juneteenth Reads 2023
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree. Originally performed for ESPN's The Undefeated, this poem is a love letter to black life in the United States. It highlights the unspeakable trauma of slavery, the faith and fire of the civil rights movement, and the grit, passion, and perseverance of some of the world's greatest heroes. The text is...
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America in the King years volume 1
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Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1988
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English
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