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Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs : The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Whose Streets?, Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, and The Central Park Five.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
This Binge box explorers contemporary social inequality in America.
Titles included: The Trials of Darryl Hunt, Whose Streets?, Neshoba: The Price of Freedom, and The Central Park Five.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1130L
Language
English
Description
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.In June of 1964, three idealistic young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. They were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
218 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Internationally known author, speaker, and activist offers a timely, rousing memoir filled with engaging personal stories from the Civil Rights era to the present, calling the church to repent, forgive, and move from racism and bigotry to love and reconciliation.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1140L
Physical Desc
143 pages : black & white illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
980L
Physical Desc
vii, 120 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
An account of the civil rights crusade in Mississippi 50 years ago that brought on shocking violence and the beginning of a new political order.
7) Yankee girl
Author
Pub. Date
2009, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
219 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When her FBI-agent father is transferred to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964, eleven-year-old Alice wants to be popular but also wants to reach out to the one black girl in her class in a newly-integrated school.
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