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1) Take my hand
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Children's Press, An imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After decades of segregation, women were at the forefront of the civil rights movement, the largest social upheaval since the end of the Civil War. Alongside men, they were leaders, planners, organizers, and protesters. They moved the needle toward groundbreaking legislation. They fought for women's rights and for justice for all. As the nation slowly moved toward political equality for people of color, these steadfast activists, alone or in groups,...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A Black woman who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus sparked a bus boycott and became part of one of the most iconic moments in American history. Yet, few know that Rosa Parks had actively worked toward social justice her whole life. And even fewer know that the seeds of the statewide bus boycott were first planted by a teenager named Claudette Colvin, who was arrested on similar charges months earlier. Rosa Parks and Claudette Colvin...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[1993]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 214 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the system of segregation that existed in the United States until the mid-twentieth century and discusses the civil rights movement that changed this system.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.
11) Black hands on a white face: a time-piece of experiences in a Black and white America. An anthology
Author
Publisher
Dodd, Mead
Pub. Date
[1971]
Physical Desc
xiv, 392 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
305 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Tuskegee Airmen heroically fought for the right to be officers of the US military so that they might participate in World War II by flying overseas to help defeat fascism. However, after winning that battle, they faced their next great challenge at Freeman Field, Iowa, where racist white officers barred them from entering the prestigious Officers' Club that their rank promised them. The Freeman Field Mutiny, as it became known, would eventually...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Rogers' book was priceless because he was delivering enlightenment and pride, steeped in historical research, to a people too long starved on the lie that they were worth nothing. For African Americans of the Jim Crow era, Rogers' was their first black history teacher. But Rogers was not always shy about embellishing the facts and minimizing ambiguity; neither was he above shock journalism now and then. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. gives us a corrective...
Author
Publisher
Abrams Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xvii, 205 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Tillet's cultural criticism blends literary history, biography, and memoir in an exploration of Alice Walker's National Book Award-winning novel that examines its influence against a backdrop of the civil rights encroachments of the early 1980s.
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