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2024 GOOD TROUBLE: Protests and movements in America and beyond
JUNETEENTH 2023
Revolutionary Summer 2023
JUNETEENTH 2023
Revolutionary Summer 2023
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"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary...
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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 segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.
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"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 plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
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"Although slavery in the United States officially ended after the Civil War, prejudice against people of color lasted well into the twentieth and continues today. The Civil Rights Movement reached its peak in mid-twentieth century under the leadership of such figures as Malcolm X and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Explore the sit-ins, protests, tragedies, and victories of the Civil Rights Movement"--Provided by the publisher.
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"Reverend F.D. Reese was a leader of the Voting Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. As a teacher and principal, he recognized that his colleagues were viewed with great respect in the city. Could he convince them to risk their jobs--and perhaps their lives--by organizing a teachers-only march to the county courthouse to demand their right to vote? On January 22, 1965, the Black teachers left their classrooms and did just that, with Reverend Reese leading...
12) Rosa
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CR - Color is Not a Crime
CR - Social Justice Parenting - Chapter Books & Fiction
CR - Social Justice Parenting - Picture Books
CR - Social Justice Parenting - Chapter Books & Fiction
CR - Social Justice Parenting - Picture Books
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A biography of the African American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped established the civil rights movement.
14) Coretta Scott
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This extraodrinary poetic text captures the movement for civil rights in the United States and honros its most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.
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As a child, Clara Luper believed that someday all Americans, no matter the color of their skin, should be equal. As an educator, she prepared her students for that somedya. And in 1958, as a leader of Oklahoma City's NAACP Youth Council, she and her students sat down at a lunch counter that didn't serve African American and asked to be served. Someday is Now tells the amazing true story of one of the first lunch counter sit-ins in America, and of...
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A searing new work of nonfiction from award-winning author Brandy Colbert about the history and legacy of one of the most deadly and destructive acts of racial violence in American history: the Tulsa Race Massacre. Winner, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award.
In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District—a thriving,
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