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Black lives matter movement Feminism United States History 20th century Gay liberation movement National parks and reserves United States Juvenile literature Social movements Social movements United States History Social movements United States History 20th century United States United States History Juvenile literature United States Race relationsKahn, Mattie
Summary: "The untold history of the people who helped spark America's most important social movements from the Revolutionary War to today: teenage girls. Nine months before Rosa Parks, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama. In 1912, women's rights activists organized a massive march in support of women's suffrage, led up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 KAHHarris, Duchess
Summary: June 18, 1969. A police raid at the Stonewall Inn, a popular gathering place for LGBTQ individuals in New York City, turned into a riot. Drag queens and trans women of color were the first to fight back. Violence continued for the next six days. This is recognized as the beginning of the LGBTQ rights movement. Harris and Lundin examine how social movements have made an impact at local, state,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Essential Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA 323.3 HARGaines, James R.
Summary: "A bold and original argument that upends the myth of the Fifties as a decade of conformity to celebrate the solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements, from historian James R. Gaines"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.0973 GAISummary: Working for change: Explores the birth of the social documentary in the U.S. and U.K. during the years of the Great Depression and the New Deal, featuring interviews with several of the people who helped define and shape the form.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TOTalbot, David
Summary: 'By the Light of Burning Dreams' chronicles some of the most important moments of activism from the 60s and 70s, and ties them into the arrival of today's major political players and major progressive movements. David and Margaret Talbot are both very well-connected, with contacts such as Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., George R.R. Martin,Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, and Oliver Stone. From the founder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 TALBingham, Clara
Summary: "As the 1960s drew to a close, the United States was coming apart at the seams. From August 1969 to August 1970, the nation witnessed nine thousand protests and eighty-four acts of arson or bombings at schools across the country. It was the year of the My Lai massacre investigation, the Cambodia invasion, Woodstock, and the Moratorium to End the War. The American death toll in Vietnam was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 BINBoggs, Grace Lee.
Summary: Synopsis: A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis-political, economical, and environmental-and shows how to create the radical social change we need to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303.48 BOGHayden, Tom.
Summary: Barack Obama would not be possible without the 1960s, Hayden writes in his compelling new book. The author reminds the president that the peace movement was critical to his 2008 victory and only a radical populism will make his economic recovery and health-care promises come to fruition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paradigm Publishers 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.92 HAYTraxel, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.89 TRAKnobel, Dale T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twayne Publishers, c1996. 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.53 KNOZinn, Howard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973 ZINJobin-Leeds, Greg
Summary: "Same-sex marriage, #BlackLivesMatter, the Dream Act, the People's Climate March, End the New Jim Crow, Occupy Wall Street--these are just a few of the initiatives that have taken flight in the past decade, the most fertile and productive era of activism and reform this country has seen since the 1960s. Now, in a visually rich and deeply inspiring book, movement leaders and activists distill...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 303 JOBJones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice)
Summary: "A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalized citizens inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video, "How Can We Win.""--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.896 JONFrank, Thomas
Summary: "From the prophetic author of the now-classic What's the Matter with Kansas? and Listen, Liberal, an eye-opening account of populism, the most important--and misunderstood--movement of our time. Rarely does a work of history contain startling implicationsfor the present, but in The People, No Thomas Frank pulls off that explosive effect by showing us that everything we think we know about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2020
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Summary: "Some of the most important and little-known activists of the 1960s were poor and working-class radicals. Inspired by the Civil Rights movement, the Black Panthers, and progressive populism, they started to organize significant political struggles against racism and inequality during the 1960s and into the 1970s. Historians of the period have traditionally emphasized the work of white college...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Melville House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.4 SONSummary: "The balance of nature" is a widely-held belief that ecosystems function cooperatively rather than hierarchically, gradually adjusting for change - a concept that was co-opted by early computer scientists and hippies alike. This program examines that concept and how its mechanistic but egalitarian philosophy came to permeate the zeitgeist of the mid-20th century, only to be debunked later on as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Oakes, James
Summary: "An award-winning scholar uncovers Lincoln's strategy for abolishing slavery in this groundbreaking history of the sectional crisis and Civil War. Some celebrate Lincoln for freeing the slaves; others fault him for a long-standing conservatism on abolition and race. James Oakes gives us another option in this brilliant exploration of Lincoln and the end of slavery. Through the unforeseen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 OAKBingham, Clara
Summary: For lovers of both Barbie and Gloria Steinem, The Movement is the first oral history of the decade that built the modern feminist movement. Through the captivating individual voices of the people who lived it, The Movement tells the intimate inside story of what it felt like to be at the forefront of the modern feminist crusade, when women rejected thousands of years of custom and demanded the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Single Publishers/Atria 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 BINHarris, Duchess
Summary: What started as a hashtag in 2013 quickly grew into the Black Lives Matter movement. Black Lives Matter examines the police shootings that fueled the movement, the events that led up to racial tensions in the United States, and the goals the movement has set for the future. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J305.8960 HARDennis, David J.
Summary: "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DENChambers, Veronica
Summary: This timely book covers the rise of Black Lives Matter and how it has been shaped by United States history, telling the story of how a hashtag became a movement.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Versify, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1196 CHA1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 323.1196 CHA
Hass, Kristin Ann
Summary: Monuments, museums, and everyday patriotic practices have made headlines for most of the twenty-first century, yet they are seldom look at together or understood explicitly as tools used by particular people in particular times and places to shape the culture in particular ways. Hass explore the complicated histories of sites of cultural infrastructure: memorials in parks, museums visited by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2022
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Summary: "A character-driven look at a pivotal period in American history, 1917-1920: the tumultuous home front during WWI and its aftermath, when violence broke out across the country thanks to the first Red Scare, labor strife, and immigration battles"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 HOCWilliams, Yohuru
Summary: "Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023