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Publisher
World Book
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"A history of the African American civil rights movement, based on primary source documents and other historical artifacts. Features include period art works and photographs; excerpts from literary works, letters, speeches, broadcasts, and diaries; summary boxes; a timeline; maps; and a list of additional resources"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The broadest and most comprehensive collection of writings available by an early civil and women's rights pioneer . Seventy-one years before Rosa Parks's courageous act of resistance, police dragged a young Black journalist named Ida B. Wells off a train for refusing to give up her seat. The experience shaped Wells's career, and--when hate crimes touched her life personally--she mounted what was to become her life's work: an anti-lynching crusade...
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Series
Publisher
Melville House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"As the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to poison our communities, it's as urgent now as ever to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., whose insistence on equality and peace defined the Civil Rights Movement and forever changed the course of American history. This collection ranges...
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Series
Reference information paper volume 113
Publisher
National Archives and Records Administration
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English