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Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Proud first lady of a Southern Baptist megachurch, Trinitie Childs carries immense responsibility on her shoulders. After a scandal involving her husband, the church is forced to temporarily close, leaving Trinitie struggling to manage the aftermath. Now, she and her spouse must rebuild their congregation and reconcile their faith by all means necessary to make the biggest comeback that commodified religion has ever seen.
2) Citizen King
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. with b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Explores the live of Martin Luther King from his "I have a dream speech" in 1963 to his assassination in 1968, with insight from colleagues, journalists, historians, and scholars.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the tradition of Escape and Stolen innocence, the first look behind the curtains of the Westboro Baptist Church, by a young woman cast out from its clutches"--Provided by the publisher.
Lauren Drain's childhood seemed average American, but when her liberal-minded father set out to film a documentary about the audacious and cultish hate group, the Westboro Baptist Church, he found himself seduced. At 14, Lauren was moved with her family to Kansas...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The activist and TED speaker Phelps-Roper reveals her life growing up in the most hated family in America. Rich with suspense and thoughtful reflection, her life story exposes the dangers of black-and-white thinking and the need for true humility in a time of angry polarization.
At the age of five, Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded...
Publisher
Passport Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Looks at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., filtered through the prism of the struggle between black and white America, divisiveness within the civil rights movement itself, and an undeclared war in Vietnam. Includes archival footage of Dr. King and interviews with Rev. Jesse Jackson, Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, and others.
8) King: a life
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The first full biography in decades, "King" mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times"--
"Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig's King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.--and the first to include recently declassified FBI files. In this revelatory new portrait of the preacher and activist...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It wasn't until Libby Phelps was an adult, a twenty-five year old, that she escaped the Westboro Baptist Church. She is the granddaughter of its founder, Fred Phelps, and when she left, the church and its values were all she'd known. She didn't tell her family she was leaving. It happened in just a few minutes; she ran into her house, grabbed a bag, and fled. No goodbyes. Based in Topeka, Kansas, the Westboro Baptist Church community is one the country's...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., his life, accomplishments in the civil rights movement, and his impact on American history.
Author
Series
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
56 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Briefly recounts the life of the black minister who devoted his life to civil rights and discusses the national holiday in his name: Martin Luther King Day celebrated on the third Monday of every January.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
276 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"On the heels of his historic election to the United States Senate, Raphael Warnock shares his remarkable spiritual and personal journey Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As Senior Pastor of Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church and now as a Senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can at once call out the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary American life and, at a time of division, summon us all...
17) Black & white: the confrontation between Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull" Connor
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the nineteen fifties and early sixties, Birmingham, Alabama, became known as Bombingham. At the center of this violent time in the fight for civil rights, and standing at opposite ends, were Reverend Fred L. Shuttlesworth and Eugene "Bull' Connor. From his pulpit, Shuttlesworth agitated for racial equality, while Commissioner Connor fought for the status quo. Relying on court documents, police and FBI reports, newspapers, interviews, and photographs,...
Author
Publisher
Philomel
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Before Raphael Warnock became a pastor and the first Black senator from Georgia, he was a little boy whose father told him to get up, get dressed, put on his shoes, and get ready! So that's what he did, along every step of his journey. From his work boots to his marching band shoes to his shiny lace-ups, Senator Reverend Warnock found the right shoes to fit his feet and to carry him toward his dreams. This inspirational story, with bold, brilliant...
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