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• Rosa Parks

  Brinkley, Douglas

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• Rosa Parks

  in Her Own Words

  Reyburn, Susan,

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• The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

  Theoharis, Jeanne

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• Race Against Time

  a Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

  Mitchell, Jerry,

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  An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder.

• Good Trouble

  Lessons From the Civil Rights Playbook

  Noxon, Christopher,

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  Highlights pivotal episodes from the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the lessons they offer to modern-day activists and civic-minded individuals who are hoping to create change, including sit-ins and boycotts.

• Driving While Black

  African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights

  Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan,

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  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 enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Gretchen Sorin recovers a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Bending Toward Justice

  the Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights

  Jones, Doug (G. Douglas), 1954-

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  The story of the decades-long fight to bring justice to the victims of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, culminating in Sen. Doug Jones' prosecution of the last living bombers. On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Deep Delta Justice

  a Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South

  Van Meter, Matthew,

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  In 1966 Louisiana, Gary Duncan leaped from his car to stop a fight between a bunch of white kids and two of his own cousins and was promptly accused of assault. He asked New Yorker Richard Sobol, working that summer at a New Orleans law firm, to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Separate

  the Story of Plessy V. Ferguson, and America's Journey From Slavery to Segregation

  Luxenberg, Steve,

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  Documents the story of the infamous nineteenth-century Supreme Court ruling in favor of segregation, tracing the half-century of history that shaped the ruling and the reverberations that are still being felt today.

• A Girl Stands at the Door

  the Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools

  Devlin, Rachel,

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  A new history of school desegregation in America, revealing how girls and women led the fight for interracial education.

• Lighting the Fires of Freedom

  African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement

  Bell, Janet Dewart,

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  A groundbreaking collection based on oral histories that plumbs the leadership of African American women in the 20th-century fight for civil rights—many nearly lost to history.

• A More Beautiful and Terrible History

  the Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History

  Theoharis, Jeanne,

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  Author examines the ways that the popular conceptions of the civil rights movement are used to present a history that is incomplete and often directly contradicts the efforts of Parks, King, and the larger movements they helped to lead. Theoharis…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Past That Won't Rest

  Images of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi

  Lucas, Jim, 1944-1980,

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  Never-before-published photographs taken by Jim Lucas (1944-1980), an exceptional documentary photographer. His black and white images, taken during 1964 through 1968, depict events from the civil rights movement including the search for the missing…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Redemption

  Martin Luther King Jr.'s Last 31 Hours

  Rosenbloom, Joseph, 1944-

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  Chronicles the last 31 hours of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life as he seeks to revive the non-violent civil rights movement and push to end poverty in America.

• March. Book 1

  Lewis, John, 1940-2020

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  A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement...all told in graphic novel…Read moreRead more of this annotation