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Language
English
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"1965: Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as her family believes. She's chosen to spend her summer break as a volunteer helping to register black voters. But as Ellie follows her ideals fighting for the civil rights of the marginalized, her scandalized...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
In the summer of 1968, after travelling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California, to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
28 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Melody Ellison loves singing and gardening, and is inspired by friends and family and the Civil Rights Movement to make changes in her community. Melody's story of leadership and making one's voice heard will engage today's readers as they learn what it was like to be a girl in 1964.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
268 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It is 1970 in Red Grove, Alabama, and at Lu Olivera's school the white kids and black kids sit on different sides of the classroom. Six-grader Lu just wants to get along with everyone, but growing racial tensions will not let Lu stay neutral about the racial divide in school. Her old friends have been changing lately--acting boy crazy and making snide remarks about Lu's newfound talent for running track. Lu's secret hope for a new friend is fellow...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st. ed.
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
There's a sweet, sweet smell in the air as two young girls sneak out of their house, down the street, and across town to where men and women are gathered, ready to march for freedom and justice. Inspired by the countless young people who took a stand against the forces of injustice, two Coretta Scott King Honorees, Angela Johnson and Eric Velasquez, offer a stirring yet jubilant glimpse of the youth involvement that played an invaluable role in the...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"When thirteen-year-old Billie Sims learns that the Freedom Riders, a civil rights group protesting segregation on buses in the summer of 1961, will be traveling through Anniston, Alabama, she thinks change could be coming to her stubborn town. But what starts as angry grumbles soon turns to brutality, and Billie is forced to reconsider her own views"--
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Describes the people and events of the U.S civil rights movement. The reader's choices reveal the historical details from the perspectives of a Little Rock resident, a Freedom Rider, and a Birmingham protester"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
The first of ten novellas in the National Book Award Finalist I Hotel, following San Francisco's Asian-American community through the civil rights era.
Centered around the International Hotel, a historic low-income residence in San Francisco's Chinatown, the ten novellas of Karen Tei Yamashita's epic are each devoted to a single year in one of America's most transformative decades. This multi-voiced fusion of prose, playwriting, graphic art, and...
10) 1970: "I" Hotel
Author
Publisher
Coffee House Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"I Hotel" is the third novella of I Hotel, a National Book Award finalist and epic of America's struggle for civil rights as it played out in San Francisco's Chinatown. Yamashita's cast of students, laborers, artists, revolutionaries, and provocateurs make their way through the history of the day, caught in riptides of politics and passion, clashing ideologies and personal turmoil.
Author
Publisher
Lucky Sky Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"An exploration of the prejudice and what enables and disables change, set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1964, from the perspectives of a 12-year-old white girl, a young black woman who has left Mississippi for Chicago, and a Freedom Summer volunteer from New York City. As lives collide, each questions what freedom means and the price they'll pay to have it." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Aladdin paperback edition.
Lexile measure
650L
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.
Bad things happen in the heat, they say. Maxie knows all about how fire can erupt at a moments notice, especially now, in the sweltering Chicago summer of 1968. She is a...
13) Malcolm and me
Author
Publisher
SparkPress, a BookSparks imprint
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
259 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Philly native Roberta Forest is a precocious rebel with the soul of a poet. The thirteen-year-old is young, gifted, black, and Catholic--although shes uncertain about the Catholic part after she calls Thomas Jefferson a hypocrite for enslaving people and her nun responds with a racist insult. Their ensuing fight makes Roberta question God and the important adults in her life, all of whom seem to see truth as gray when Roberta believes its black or...
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Stillwater, Mississippi, in 1955, thirteen-year-old African American Rose Lee Carter looks to her family and friends to understand her place in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Aladdin ed.
Lexile measure
HL 550L
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1968 Chicago, fourteen-year-old Sam Childs is caught in a conflict between his father's nonviolent approach to seeking civil rights for African Americans and his older brother, who has joined the Black Panther Party.
Author
Series
Publisher
Essential Press, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
1210L
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This volume examines the Right to Vote through examples and with historical context.
America is known as the land of the free. Americans have the freedom to worship as they please, speak their minds, gather to protest, and own guns. When they are displeased, they make their voices heard at the ballot box. And each of the government balances and checks the others. But these freedoms have limits. Where are the lines drawn, and who draws them? Since...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Most people think that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 meant that schools were integrated with deliberate speed. But the children of Prince Edward County located in Farmville, Virginia, who were prohibited from attending formal schools for five years knew differently, including Yolanda. Told by Yolanda Gladden herself, cowritten by Dr. Tamara Pizzoli and with illustrations by Keisha Morris, When the Schools Shut Down is a true account...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1080L
Physical Desc
63 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
This critical civil rights book for middle-graders examines the little-known Tennessee's Fayette County Tent City Movement in the late 1950s and reveals what is possible when people unite and fight for the right to vote. Powerfully conveyed through interconnected stories and told through the eyes of a child, this book combines poetry, prose, and stunning illustrations to shine light on this forgotten history.