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1) The help
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
In Jackson, Mississippi, in 1962, there are lines that are not crossed. With the civil rights movement exploding all around them, three women start a movement of their own, forever changing a town and the way women--black and white, mothers and daughters--view one another.
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis has been a resounding moral voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years. In March, he shares his memories of the Civil Rights Movement, reliving the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from a past of clenched fists into a future of outstretched hands.
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A novel about the extraordinary partnership between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune--an unlikely friendship that changed the world, from the New York Times bestselling authors of the Good Morning America Book Club pick The Personal Librarian. The daughter of formerly enslaved parents, Mary McLeod Bethune refuses to back down as white supremacists attempt to thwart her work. She marches on as an activist...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives.
Celebrated...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
79 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Offers the true account of two young men who took the risk to venture into the segregated South at the peak of the Civil Rights era to take part as Freedom Riders and fight for equality for all.
11) Rosa
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides the story of the black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama set in motion all the events of the civil rights movements that resulted in the end of the segregated South.
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
187 pages chiefly illustrations 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
13) The help
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Powerfully conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and stunning illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history.
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. In this conclusion to the March trilogy, he details the surpassing courage, sacrifice, and revolutionary non-violence that transformed American society in the 1960s.
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
6 sound discs (6 hr., 36 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the Civil Rights Movement.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 133 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Racial tension runs high in 1971 Durham, North Carolina as residents continue to fight the 1954 Supreme Court decision to desegregate their schools. A series of town meetings are called to discuss the matter. Ann Atwater and C.P. Ellis, the meeting co-chairs, have very different views. Passionately advocating for school integration is a way of life for Atwater, a champion for Civil Rights. C.P. Ellis, Exalted Cyclops leading the Durham chapter of...