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She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world in which white supremacy was an unassailable citadel. She was subjected without her consent to an operation that deprived her of children. And she was denied the most basic of all rights in America--the right to cast a ballot--in...
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"Fannie Lou Hamer was a powerful leader in the fight for Civil Rights and women's rights. Before she became an activist, she was a young girl in Mississippi who loved to read and recite poetry. She overcame many challenges and used her voice to stand up for equality and justice. This inspiring chapter book for young readers explores how Fannie went from being a young girl who had to leave school at age 12 to one of the leading voices of the Civil...
3) The children
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Recounts the experiences of Diane Nash, John Lewis, Gloria Johnson, Bernard Lafayette, Marion Barry, Curtis Murphy, James Bevel, and Rodney Powell and their families during the early days of the civil rights movement in the 1960's.
4) King: a life
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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2003
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1 online resource (ix, 482 p.)
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Political philosophers argue vigorously over the relative merits of 'positive' and 'negative' accounts of freedom. Matthew Kramer writes squarely within the negative-liberty tradition, but he incorporates a number of ideas that are quite often associated with theories of positive liberty.
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[2012], c2008
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1 streaming video file (28 min.) : sd., col.
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"This Civil Rights Act is a challenge to all of us," says President Johnson, "to go to work in our communities and our states, in our homes and in our hearts, to eliminate the last vestiges of injustice in our beloved country." This documentary, filmed in 1965, looks back on the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and asks What has and has not been done during this year that held such great promise?
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[2012], c2008
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1 streaming video file (23 min.) : sd., col.
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This historical film - a dramatization combined with archival footage and photos - examines race, the Constitution, and desegregation over time. The film uses the March 3, 1970, incident at Lamar High School in Lamar, South Carolina, where a group of white parents rioted against desegregation, as a backdrop for the discussion.
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c2009
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ix, 271 p. ; 25 cm.
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"Essays retrace the historical development of rights in the West, assessing the influence of Locke, Burke, and the authors of the Declaration of Independence to clarify the experience of rights within the Western tradition, showing that rights need to be rethought so that they may again truly serve the human good"--Provided by publisher.
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"Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar's secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him...
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In these brilliant poems, Rita Dove treats us to a panoply of human endeavor, shot through with the electrifying jazz of her lyric elegance. From the opening sequence, "Cameos," to the civil rights struggle of the final sequence, she explores the intersection of individual fate and history.
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[1960]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 min., 39 sec.)) : sound.
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The first sit-in of the Civil Rights movement happened when four African-American college students sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960. The Greensboro sit-in sparked a wave of similar protests throughout the South, as well as "sympathy sit-ins" by college students in the North.
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[1967]
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1 online resource (1 video file (1 min., 55 sec.)) : sound.
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In northern cities such as Detroit and New York, many African Americans lived in ghettoes. Racial tensions boiled over in the form of violence and rioting. Dramatic media depictions of ghetto riots were a significant cause of white backlash and "white flight" from urban areas into the suburbs.
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"A picture book biography of Diane Nash, a Civil Rights Movement leader at the side of Martin Luther King Jr. and John Lewis. Born in the 1940s in Chicago, Diane went on to take command of the Nashville Movement, leading lunch counter sit-ins and peaceful marches. Diane decides to fight not with anger or violence, but with love. With her strong words of truth and actions, she works to stop segregation"-- Provided by publisher.
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"This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"-- Provided by publisher.
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[2012], c2009
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1 streaming video file (90 min.) : sd., col. + instructional materials (online)
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A part of the series America in the 20th Century. Anyone who thinks the Civil Rights movement began and ended with Martin Luther King, Jr., will discover a new, eye-opening view of history in this program. It reveals a long-running struggle for racial equality starting with Civil War- and Reconstruction-era events, moving through the blight of Jim Crow and the formation of the NAACP and other groups, and depicting the drama of King's movement in varied,...
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From the Montgomery bus boycott to the Little Rock Nine to the Selma-Montgomery march, thousands of ordinary people who participated in the American civil rights movement; their stories are told in Eyes on the Prize.
From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose John and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination. These moving accounts of the first...
