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American Girl. A girl named seriesPatrick, Denise Lewis
Summary: The A Girl Named series tells the stories of how ordinary American girls grew up to be extraordinary American women. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white passenger in 1955, but how did she come to be so brave?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 PATLong, Michael G.
Summary: "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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSJoy, Angela
Summary: "The story of the mother of Emmett Till, and how she channeled grief over her son's death into a call to action for the civil rights movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 TILWallace, Sandra Neil
Summary: "A picture book biography of Diane Nash, a Civil Rights Movement leader at the side of Martin Luther King 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 NASHunter-Gault, Charlayne
Summary: "Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an eminent Dean of American journalism, a vital voice whose work chronicled the civil rights movement and so much of what has transpired since then. My People is the definitive collection of her reportage and commentary. Spanning datelines in the American South, South Africa and points scattered in between, her work constitutes a history of our time as rendered by the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022