Civil rights movements
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In the Name of Emmett Till: How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
$20.95 Read moreThe killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder. These chil
- Author: Mayer, Robert H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1588384373
- Language: English
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Freedom Summer for Young People: The Violent Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
$22.95 Read moreThis latest edition in Triangle Square’s For Young People series is a gripping account of the summer that changed America.
In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student- Author: Watson, Bruce
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 10 2020
- ISBN10: 164421010X
- Language: English
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Be a King: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream and You
$18.99 Add to cartYou can be a King. Stamp out hatred. Put your foot down and walk tall.
You can be a King. Beat the drum for justice. March to your own conscience. Featuring a dual narrative of the key moments of Dr.- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0802723683
- Language: English
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Call and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter
$21.99 Read moreCall and Response: The Story of Black Lives Matter is a broad and powerful exploration of the history of Black Lives Matter told through photographs, quotes, and informative text by New York Times bes
- Author: Chambers, Veronica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 17 2021
- ISBN10: 0358573416
- Language: English
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A Sweet Smell of Roses
$8.99 Read moreTwo young girls not only witness but help to change history in this inspiring and urgent Civil Rights-era picture book by three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner Angela Johnson.
There’s a sweet, sw- Author: Johnson, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416953612
- Language: English
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Seven Sisters and a Brother: Friendship, Resistance, and Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s (a Pivotal Event in the History o
$19.99 Add to cartThe Story Behind an Unsung Event in the Civil Rights Movement
“Over eight days, eight students sparked change that defined their lives, changed an institution and fueled a movement that continues today
- Author: Allman Maye, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: December 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1642507717
- Language: English
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Not My Idea: A Book about Whiteness
$18.95 Add to cartAn honest explanation about how power and privilege factor into the lives of white children, at the expense of other groups, and how they can help seek justice. —THE NEW YORK TIMES
ONE OF HUFFPOST‘S
- Series: Ordinary Terrible Things
- Author: Higginbotham, Anastasia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1948340003
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Civil Rights Road Trip
$18.00 Add to cartTime to board the bus! Liberty and her friend Abdullah, with their families and a diverse group of passengers, head off to their first stop: Jackson, Mississippi. Next on their map are Glendora, Memph
- Author: Waters, Michael W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 12 2021
- ISBN10: 1947888196
- Language: English
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
$18.99 Add to cartAs a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the movement that it galvanized.
Winner of the Orbis Pictus … [more below]- Author: Wittenstein, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0823443310
- Language: English
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The Youngest Marcher: The Story of Audrey Faye Hendricks, a Young Civil Rights Activist
$18.99 Add to cartMeet the youngest known child to be arrested for a civil rights protest in Birmingham, Alabama, 1963, in this moving picture book that proves you’re never too little to make a difference.
Nine-year-ol- Author: Levinson, Cynthia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1481400703
- Language: English
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One with Others: [A Little Book of Her Days]
$18.00 Add to cartHonored in “Best Books of the Year” listings from The New Yorker, National Public Radio, Library Journal, and The Huffington Post.
“One With Others represents Wright’s most audacious experiment yet.”–
- Author: Wright, C. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: April 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1556593880
- Language: English
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Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington
$4.99 Add to cartIntroduce children to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement, and the historic march on Washington with this inspiring biography
Young readers can now learn about one of the greatest- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 110193669X
- Language: English
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Homeward
$17.99 Read moreThe country is changing, and her own world is being turned upside down. Nothing–and no one–will ever be the same.
Georgia, 1962. Rose Perkins Bourdon returns home to Parsons, GA, without her husband
- Author: Jackson-Brown, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1400241103
- Language: English
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Small Shoes, Great Strides: How Three Brave Girls Opened Doors to School Equality
$19.99 Add to cartLeona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost didn’t set out to make history. But when these three Black first graders stepped into the all-white McDonogh No. 19 Public School in New Orleans on Novembe
- Author: Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1728419239
- Language: English
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A Song for the Unsung: Bayard Rustin, the Man Behind the 1963 March on Washington
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award
A singular, richly illustrated picture book biography of Bayard Rustin, the gay Black man behind the March on Washington of 1963, by the acclaimed autho- Author: Weatherford, Carole Boston
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1250779502
- Language: English
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Separados No Somos Iguales: Sylvia Méndez Y La Lucha de Su Familia Por La Integración (Separate Is Never Equal Spanish Edition)
$19.99 Read moreSiete a?os antes de Brown v. Board of Education, la familia M?ndez luch? para acabar con la segregaci?n en las escuelas de California. Descubre su incre?ble historia en este libro para ni?os del galar… [more below]
- Author: Tonatiuh, Duncan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1419768042
- Language: Spanish
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My Selma: True Stories of a Southern Childhood at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
$16.99 Read morePerfect for fans of Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming, debut author Willie Mae Brown crafts an unforgettable memoir about growing up amidst the civil rights movement in a town at the crossroads
- Author: Brown, Willie Mae
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0374390231
- Language: English
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