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Author
Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An award-winning broadcaster and educator presents his experiences following the path of African Americans who traveled the country during the age of segregation using The Green Book, a guide which helped Black people travel safely.
"Join award-winning broadcaster Alvin Hall on a journey through America's haunted racial past, with the legendary Green Book as your guide. For countless Americans, the open road has long been a place where dangers lurk....
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xviii, 332 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How the automobile fundamentally changed African American life-the true history beyond the Best Picture-winning movie. The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to...
24) Banished
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 84 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From 1860 to 1920 hundreds of US counties expelled all of their African American inhabitants. "Banished" visits three of these still all white towns today. Meanwhile the descendants of those displaced and disinherited seek redress. Banished vividly recovers the too-quickly forgotten history of racial cleansing in America when thousands of African Americans were driven from their homes and communities by violent, racist mobs. The film places these...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chronicling the riveting history and personal experiences, at once liberating and challenging, harrowing and inspiring, deeply revealing and profoundly transforming, of African Americans on the road from the advent of the automobile through the seismic changes of the 1960s and beyond, it explores the deep background of a recent phrase rooted in realities that have been an indelible part of the African American experience for hundreds of years.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 54 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story shows that segregation has been as virulent and persistent in the North as in the South and that it too has resulted from deliberate public policies based in deep-rooted racial prejudice. The film uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York during the1980s to show the "massive resistance" the Civil Rights Movement confronted when it moved north. Brick by Brick is not only a brilliant...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward-written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers. At 18, Charles Person was the youngest of the original Freedom Riders, key figures in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement who left Washington, D.C. by bus in 1961, headed for New Orleans. This purposeful mix of black and white, male and female activists-including future Congressman John Lewis, Congress of Racial...
Author
Publisher
Melanie Kroupa Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
133 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an African-American girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
134 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Although known as Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling applied not just to the case of Linda Carol Brown, an African American third grader refused entry to an all-white Topeka, Kansas school, but to cases involving children in South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington, DC"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c1993.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Michael and his grandmother board a train in Alabama for his first train ride, the conductor directs them to the "colored only" section. But when the train pulls out of Atlanta, the signs come down, and a boy from the "whites only" section runs up to Michael, inviting him to explore. How come Michael can go as he pleases in some states, but has to sit in segregated sections in others? Based on author Michael S. Bandy's own recollections of taking...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young People
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the African American woman and civil rights worker whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus led to a boycott which lasted more than a year in Montgomery, Alabama.
35) Sing me to sleep
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
422 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Saoirse Sorkova survives on lies. As a soldier-in-training at the most prestigious barracks in the kingdom, she lies about being a siren to avoid execution. At night, working as an assassin for a dangerous group of mercenaries, Saoirse lies about her true identity. And to her family, Saoirse tells the biggest lie of all: that she can control her siren powers and doesn't struggle constantly against an impulse to kill. As the top trainee in her class,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King, children and teenagers march against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963.
1963, Birmingham, Alabama. After hearing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. speak, thousands of African American children volunteered to march for their civil rights. They protested the laws that kept black people separate from white people. Simple text and emotive illustrations bring to life this historic event, when-- facing...
37) The state must provide: why America's colleges have always been unequal--and how to set them right
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents a definitive chronicle of the pervasiveness of racial inequality in American higher education, weaving through the legal, social, and political obstacles erected to block equitable education in the United States.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 58 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Not all the civil rights victories of the '60s were won at the cost of vicious beatings and mass arrests played-out in front of television cameras. The Strange Demise of Jim Crow reveals for the first time on film how many Southern cities were desegregated in a quieter, almost stealthy fashion with behind-the-scenes negotiations, secret deals and controversial news black-outs. It makes visible a fascinating case-study of how urban power is really...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 77 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Anne Braden: southern patriot provides a moving, in-depth biography of an organizer and journalist who for a remarkable 60 years participated in the most significant movements for racial and economic justice in this country's most conservative region - the South. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. praised her steadfast activism in support of civil rights and civil liberties, but she was threatened, attacked, indicted and labeled a "Communist agitator"...
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