African Americans - Civil rights - History
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A Personal Odyssey
$21.95 Add to cartThis is the gritty story of one man’s lifelong education in the school of hard knocks, as his journey took him from Harlem to the Marines, the Ivy League, and a career as a controversial writer, teach… [more below]
- Author: Sowell, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0684864657
- Language: English
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
$9.99 Add to cartAs a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the movement that it galvanized. Now available in paperback… [more below]
- Author: Wittenstein, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0823451135
- Language: English
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A Place to Land: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Speech That Inspired a Nation
$18.99 Add to cartAs a new generation of activists demands an end to racism, A Place to Land reflects on Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech and the movement that it galvanized.
Winner of the Orbis Pictus … [more below]- Author: Wittenstein, Barry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 0823443310
- Language: English
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The Light of Truth: Writings of an Anti-Lynching Crusader
$20.00 Add to cartThe 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 y- Author: Wells, Ida B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143106821
- Language: English
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And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
$19.99 Add to cart*”A powerful, necessary book.” SLJ, starred review
A powerful, impactful, eye-opening journey that explores through the Civil Rights Movement in 1950s-1960s America in spare and evocative verse, with- Author: Martin, Erica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593352521
- Language: English
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The History of the Civil Rights Movement: A History Book for New Readers
$7.99 Add to cartAn introduction to the history of the civil rights movement for kids ages 6 to 9
Years ago, American laws were unfair to Black people. Black people were not allowed to shop in the same stores as whit- Series: History Of: A Biography Series for New Readers
- Author: Mallory, Shadae
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 66
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 163807934X
- Language: English
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My People Are Rising: Memoir of a Black Panther Party Captain
$19.95 Add to cartA compelling look at the rise and fall of the Black Panther generation, through the eyes of a founding member.
- Author: Dixon, Aaron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1608461785
- Language: English
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The Story of Martin Luther King Jr.: An Inspiring Biography for Young Readers
$6.99 Add to cartDiscover the life of Martin Luther King Jr.–a story about standing up for civil rights for kids ages 6 to 9
Martin Luther King Jr. became one of the most important civil rights leaders in America by- Series: The Story Of: A Biography Series for New Readers
- Author: Platt, Christine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 68
- Publish Date: June 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1641529547
- Language: English
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This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
$25.95 Add to cartVisiting Martin Luther King Jr. during the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol. “Just for self-defense,” King assured him. It was not the only wea… [more below]
- Author: Cobb, Charles E., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 04 2015
- ISBN10: 082236123X
- Language: English
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African American History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartWhat does it mean to be an American? The story of the African American past demonstrates the difficulty of answering this seemingly simple question. If being “American” means living in a land of freed… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Holloway, Jonathan Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: February 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0190915153
- Language: English
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Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
$24.99 Add to cartWinner of the Pulitzer Prize, this biography of Martin Luther King, Jr. covers the entire life of the leader of the Civil Rights Movement
Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Garrow, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0060566922
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Segregation: American Racism, Hidden in Plain Sight
$50.00 Read moreFrom award-winning photojournalist Richard Frishman comes a collection of photographs documenting America’s history of segregation, slavery, and institutional racism hidden in plain sight, accompanied
- Author: Frishman, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1250831687
- Language: English
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Martin Luther King Jr.
$8.99 Add to cartNow in paperback! In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Martin Luther King Jr., the inspiring minister and c… [more below]
- Series: Little People, Big Dreams #33
- Author: Sanchez Vegara, Maria Isabel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 3, 2023
- ISBN10: 0711284083
- Language: English
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Freedom! the Story of the Black Panther Party
$19.99 Read moreBooklist Editors’ Choice
WINNER of the Russell Freedman Award for Non-Fiction for a Better World Knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than- Author: Martin, Jetta Grace
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1646140931
- Language: English
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Dream March: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the March on Washington
$4.99 Add to cartIntroduce children to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the civil rights movement, and the historic march on Washington with this inspiring biography
Young readers can now learn about one of the greatest- Series: Step Into Reading
- Author: Nelson, Vaunda Micheaux
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 26 2017
- ISBN10: 110193669X
- Language: English
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By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow’s Legal Executioners
$30.00 Add to cartIf the law cannot protect a person from a lynching, then isn’t lynching the law?
In By Hands Now Known, Margaret A. Burnham, director of Northeastern University’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice P
- Author: Burnham, Margaret A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 27, 2022
- ISBN10: 0393867854
- Language: English
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Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
$19.99 Read moreIt was February 1, 1960.
This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolwo
They didn’t need menus. Their order was simple.
A doughnut and coffee, with cream on the side.- Author: Pinkney, Andrea Davis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0316070165
- Language: English
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What Is the Civil Rights Movement?
$5.99 Add to cartRelive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history.
Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation- Series: What Was?
- Author: Smith, Sherri L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: December 29 2020
- ISBN10: 1524792306
- Language: English
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Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
$21.99 Read moreAn enthralling, eye-opening portrayal of this barrier-breaking American hero as a lifelong, relentlessly proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights.
According to Martin Luther King, Jr., Jackie- Author: Williams, Yohuru
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0374389950
- Language: English
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The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
$21.99 Add to cartWith knowledge, spirit, good humor, and passion, THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. brings to life a remarkable man whose thoughts and actions speak to our most burning contemporary issues a… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Clayborne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0446676500
- Language: English
