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Author
Publisher
IVP Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In seventeen narratives Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom introduce Christian leaders in Africa and Asia who had tenacious faith in the midst of deprivation, suffering and conflict. Spanning a century, from the 1880s to the 1980s, their stories demonstrate the vitality of the Christian faith in a diversity of contexts.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a bomb tears through the basement of a black Baptist church on a peaceful fall morning, it takes the lives of four young girls; Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, Cynthia Wesley and Addie Mae Collins. This racially motivated crime, taking place at a time when the civil rights movement is burning with a new flame, could have doused that flame forever. Instead it fuels a nation's outrage and brings Birmingham, Alabama to the forefront of America's...
Author
Publisher
University Press of Mississippi
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xviii, 455 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mark Newman draws on a vast range of archives and many interviews to uncover for the first time the complex response of African American and white Catholics across the South to desegregation. In the late nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, the southern Catholic Church contributed to segregation by confining Africans Americans to the back of white churches and to black-only schools and churches. However, in the twentieth century, papal...
Author
Series
Peas (Keith Baker) volume 1
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
First edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 27 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn about the bomb blast that rocked the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church on Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, killing four young girls.
8) While the world watched: a Birmingham bombing survivor comes of age during the civil rights movement
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
xvi, 301 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
On September 15, 1963, a Klan-planted bomb went off in the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. Fourteen-year-old Carolyn Maull was just a few feet away when the bomb exploded, killing four of her friends in the girl's rest room she had just exited. It was one of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights movement, a sad day in American history ... and the turning point in a young girl's life. While the World Watched is a poignant and gripping...
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of a determined woman, who was born in Tennessee, educated in Ohio, and lived in Washington, D.C., where she worked to gain equal rights for herself and other African Americans.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
ix, 181 pages : illustrations, geneological table ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member, who helped to found the NAACP and organized of pickets and boycotts that led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area restaurants.
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