|
|
The Civil Rights Movement |
|
|
|
|
Dancing Down the Barricades: Sammy Davis Jr. and the Long Civil Rights Era: A Cultural History
by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Biography, DAVIS, SAMMY. Through the lens of Sammy Davis Jr.'s six-decade career in show business--from vaudeville to Vegas to Broadway, Hollywood, and network TV-Dancing Down the Barricades examines the workings of race in American culture. The title phrase holds two contradictory meanings regarding Davis's cultural politics: did he dance the barricades down, as he liked to think, or did he simply dance down them, as his more radical critics would have it? Sammy Davis Jr. was at once a pioneering, barrier-busting, anti-Jim Crow activist and someone who was widely associated with accommodationism and wannabe whiteness. Historian Matthew Jacobson attends to both threads, analyzing how industry norms, productions, scripts, roles, and audience expectations and responses were all framed by race, against a backdrop of a changing America. In the spirit of better understanding Davis's life and career, Dancing Down the Barricades examines the complexities of his constraints, freedoms, and choices for what they reveal about Black history and American political culture.
|
|
|
|
Medgar & Myrlie: Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
by Joy-Ann Reid
Biography, EVERS, MEDGAR. Tracing the extraordinary lives and legacy of two civil rights icons, this gripping account of Medgar and Myrlie Evers is told through their relationship and the work that went into winning basic rights for black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.
|
|
|
|
|
The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Martin Luther King
Biography, KING MARTIN LUTHER. Celebrated Stanford University historian Clayborne Carson is the director and editor of the Martin Luther King Papers Project; with thousands of King's essays, notes, letters, speeches, and sermons at his disposal, Carson has organized King's writings into a posthumous autobiography. The autobiography delves into the philosophical training King received at Morehouse College, Crozer Theological Seminary, and Boston University, where he consolidated the teachings of Afro-American theologian Benjamin Mays with the philosophies of Locke, Rousseau, Gandhi, and Thoreau. Through King's voice, the reader intimately shares in his trials and triumphs, including the Montgomery Boycott, the 1963 "I Have a Dream Speech," the Selma March, and the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize.
|
|
|
|
King: A Life
by Jonathan Eig
Biography, KING, MARTIN LUTHER. 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.
|
|
|
|
King: The Photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Charles Johnson
Biography, KING, MARTIN LUTHER. A photographic tour of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, public and private, covers a wide range of scenes, from King standing before his congregation to the bus boycott in Montgomery and his incarceration in a Birmingham jail to his assassination and its aftermath.
|
|
|
|
His Truth is Marching On: John Lewis and the Power of Hope
by Jon Meacham
Biography, LEWIS, JOHN. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hope of Glory presents a timely portrait of veteran congressman and civil rights hero John Lewis that details the life experiences that informed his faith and shaped his practices of non-violent protest.
|
|
|
|
John Lewis
by David Greenberg
New Biography, LEWIS, JOHN. Based on interviews and previously unreleased FBI files, a professor of history at Rutgers University presents the definitive biography of John Lewis's journey from rural Alabama poverty to becoming a pivotal Civil Rights leader and "conscience of Congress. Illustrations.
|
|
|
|
42 Today: Jackie Robinson and His Legacy
by Michael G. Long
Biography, ROBINSON, JACKIE. Before the United States Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools, and before Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama, Jackie Robinson walked onto the diamond on April 15, 1947, as first baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers, making history as the first African American to integrate Major League Baseball in the twentieth century. Today a national icon, Robinson was a complicated man who navigated an even more complicated world that both celebrated and despised him. Featuring piercing essays from a range of distinguished sportswriters, cultural critics, and scholars, this book explores Robinson's perspectives and legacies on civil rights, sports, faith, youth, and nonviolence, while providing rare glimpses into the struggles and strength of one of the nation's most athletically gifted and politically significant citizens.
|
|
|
|
William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia
by William C. Kashatus
Biography, STILL, WILLIAM. William Still: The Underground Railroad and the Angel at Philadelphia is the first major biography of the free black abolitionist William Still, who coordinated the Eastern Line of the Underground Railroad and was a pillar of the Railroad as a whole. Based in Philadelphia, Still built a reputation as a courageous leader, writer, philanthropist, and guide for fugitive slaves. This work details Still's life story beginning with his parents' escape from bondage in the early nineteenth century and continuing through his youth and adulthood as one of the nation's most important Underground Railroad agents and, later, as an early civil rights pioneer. Still worked personally with Harriet Tubman, assisted the family of John Brown, helped Brown's associates escape from Harper's Ferry after their famous raid, and was a rival to Frederick Douglass among nationally prominent African American abolitionists.
|
|
|
|
Ida B. the Queen: The Extraordinary Life and Legacy of Ida B. Wells
by Michelle Duster
Biography, WELLS, IDA B.. Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer includes coverage of Wells’s early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
|
|
|
|
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Biography, X, MALCOLM. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
|
|
|
|
The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X
by Les Payne
Biography, X, MALCOLM. A revisionary portrait of the iconic civil rights leader draws on hundreds of hours of interviews with surviving family members, intelligence officers and political leaders to offer new insights into Malcolm X’s Depression-era youth, religious conversion and 1965 assassination.
|
|
|
Reference (In-Library Use Only)
|
|
|
|
Race and Racism in the United States: An Encyclopedia of the American Mosaic
by Charles A. Gallagher
Reference, 305.800973 R114 2014. How is race defined and perceived in America today, and how do these definitions and perceptions compare to attitudes 100 years ago... or 200 years ago? This four-volume set is the definitive source for every topic related to race in the United States.
|
|
|
|
African American Activism and Political Engagement: An Encyclopedia of Empowerment
by Angela Jones
Reference, 305.896073 AF83 2023. This book contains essays spanning centuries of U.S. history and encyclopedia entries focusing on a wide range of themes and people with biographical entries on key leaders in the history of Black liberation-it is a resource for those wanting to learn more about the history of African American activism, political engagement, and empowerment..
|
|
|
|
African American Desk Reference
by Not Available
Reference, 305.896073 AF832. Presents a timeline of African-American history and identifies important people and events.
|
|
|
|
Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present
by Paul Finkelman
Reference, 973.0496 EN19. Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this five-volume encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape.
|
|
|
|
Jim Crow: Voices from a Century of Struggle: Part One, 1876, 1919: Reconstruction to the Red Summer
by Tyina L. Steptoe
Non-Fiction, 305.800973 J564. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction - and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. The powerful writings gathered here reveal the many ways Americans, Black and white, fought against white supremacist efforts to police the color line, envisioning a better America in the face of disenfranchisement, segregation, and widespread lynching, mob violence, and police brutality.
|
|
|
|
When Evil Lived in Laurel: The White Knights and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
by Curtis Wilkie
Non-Fiction, 305.896073 W653W. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South-which carried out his murder in a raid that burned down his home and store. A riveting account of the incident and its aftermath, When Evil Lived in Laurel is a tale of obsession, in which the infamous Imperial Wizard Sam Bowers became so fixated on killing Dahmer that the bungled attack ultimately led to Bowers's downfall and the destruction of his virulently racist organization. Drawing on the diary of a former Klan infiltrator who risked his life to help break the White Knights, veteran journalist Curtis Wilkie brings fresh light to this chapter in the history of civil rights in the South.
|
|
|
|
The Movement Made Us: A Father, a Son, and the Legacy of a Freedom Ride
by David J. Dennis
Non-Fiction, 305.896073 D423M. Pivoting between the voices of a father and son, this unique work of oral history and memoir chronicles the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter, that, taken together, paint a critical portrait of America.
|
|
|
|
The Black Box: Writing the Race
by Henry Louis Gates
Non-Fiction, 305.896073 G223B. Through essays and speeches, novels, plays and poems, this epic story of Black self-definition in America is told through the myriad of writers who've led the way and who have used words to create a livable world—a "home"—for Black people destined to live out their lives in a racist society.
|
|
|
|
Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights
by Gretchen Sullivan Sorin
Non-Fiction, 323.1196. It's hardly a secret that mobility has always been limited, if not impossible, for Black people. Before the Civil War, masters confined their slaves to their property, while free Black people found themselves regularly stopped, questioned, and even kidnapped. Restrictions on movement before Emancipation carried over, in different forms, into Reconstruction and beyond; for most of the 20th century, many white Americans felt blithely comfortable denying their Black countrymen the right to travel freely on trains and buses. Yet it became more difficult to shackle someone who was cruising along a highway at 45 miles per hour. In Driving While Black, the acclaimed historian Gretchen Sorin reveals how the car--the ultimate symbol of independence and possibility--has always held particular 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.
|
|
|
|
At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68
by Taylor Branch
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 B732A. The final installment of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's history of the civil rights movement chronicles Martin Luther King's final years, covering such topics as the 1965 Selma march for the right to vote, King's turbulent alliance with Lyndon Johnson, and his protests against the Vietnam war.
|
|
|
|
Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65
by Taylor Branch
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 B732PI. Examines the jailing of Martin Luther King, the end of segregation, and the growing rifts in the civil rights movement that led to calls for a more violent reaction to racism.
|
|
|
|
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance
by Kellie Carter Jackson
New Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 J135W. Offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women, a noted historian presents a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience and a path toward liberation.
|
|
|
|
Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. The celebrated civil rights leader outlines the trends in the African American struggle during the sixties, and pleads for peaceful coexistence between the African American and white communities.
|
|
|
|
Until Justice Be Done: America's First Civil Rights Movement, from the Revolution to Reconstruction
by Kate Masur
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangements of free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and restricted the basic rights of free black people. But claiming the equal-rights promises of the Declaration and the Constitution, a biracial movement arose to fight these racist state laws. Kate Masur's magisterial history delivers this pathbreaking movement in vivid detail. Its advocates battled in state legislatures, Congress, and the courts, and through petitioning, party politics and elections. They visited slave states to challenge local laws that imprisoned free blacks and sold them into slavery. Despite immovable white majorities and unfavorable court decisions, their vision became increasingly mainstream. After the Civil War, their arguments shaped the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment, the pillars of our second founding.
|
|
|
|
Reporting Civil Rights: The Library of America Edition
by
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A two-volume anthology of journalism documenting more than 30 years of the African-American struggle for freedom and equal rights draws on nearly 200 newspaper and magazine reports, book excerpts and features by such notable writers as David Halberstam, Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison.
|
|
|
|
Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
by Thomas E. Ricks
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 R426W. A Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter offers a fresh perspective on the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and its legacy today, narrating its triumphs and defeats and highlighting lesser-known figures who played critical roles in fashioning nonviolence into an effective tool.
|
|
|
|
Saying It Loud: 1966--the Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
by Mark Whitaker
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073 W58S. Deeply researched and widely reported, this exploration of the Black Power phenomenon that began to challenge the traditional civil rights movement in 1966 offers brilliant portraits of the major characters in the yearlong drama and the fierce battles over voting rights, identity politics and the teaching of Black history. Illustrations.
|
|
|
|
Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
by Juan Williams
Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Eyes on the Prize tells the definitive story of the civil rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations continue to be felt today. Companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary and award winner.
|
|
|
|
By Hands Now Known: Jim Crow's Legal Executioners
by Margaret Burnham
Non-Fiction, 342.730873. The director of Northeastern University's Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project examines the legal apparatus that helped sustain Jim Crow-era violence, focusing on a series of harrowing cases from 1920 to 1960.
|
|
|
|
The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi
by Wright Thompson
New Non-Fiction, 364.134 T379B. Recounting one of the most notorious and consequential killings in American history—the 1955 murder and torture of Emmett Till, a Black boy barely in his teens, in barn in Money, Mississippi, this story about property, money, power and white supremacy is still ongoing and implicates all of us.
|
|
|
|
Lifting the Chains: The Black Freedom Struggle since Reconstruction
by William H. Chafe
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 C346L. It was 1863. Abraham Galloway--son of a white father and an enslaved mother--stood next to the Army recruiter, holding a gun to the soldier's head. He had escaped slavery in the hold--of a ship four years earlier, fleeing to Canada, then became a masterspy for the Union Army. Now, in the days after Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, Galloway had returned to North Carolina, becoming the leader of more than 4,000 escaped slaves who had joined him in New Bern, North Carolina. We will join the Union Army, Galloway told the recruiter, but only on our terms. Galloway then laid down his demands: the right to vote; the right to serve on juries; the right to run for elected office; equal pay for Black and white soldiers; schools for their children; jobs for women; and care for their families. In retrospect, the demands seem revolutionary. But not so, given the roles that Blacks were playing in the war. Hence, the recruiter said yes. Within days, 10,000 Blacks had joined Galloway to enlist in the Union Army. Those soldiers--along with nearly 200,000 other Blacks who enlisted--proved pivotal to destroying the system of plantation slavery. Soon, they would inaugurate the quest to create a truly democratic America.
|
|
|
|
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America
by Michael Harriot
Non-Fiction, 973.0496 H239B. The acclaimed columnist and political commentator presents a sharp and often hilarious retelling of American history that focuses on the overlooked contribution of Black Americans and corrects the idea that American history is white history.
|
|
|
|
The Black Calhouns: From Civil War to Civil Rights With One African American Family
by Gail Lumet Buckley
Non-Fiction. The daughter of actress Lena Horne traces the story of her family between two major human rights periods in America, sharing the stories of her house-slave-turned-businessman ancestor, the branches of her family that lived in the North and South and their experiences during the Jim Crow and wartime eras.
|
|
|
|
Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies
by Dick Gregory
Non-Fiction. The activist and social satirist who trail-blazed a new form of racial commentary in the 1960s examines 100 key events in Black History through this collection of essays which examine Middle Passage, the creation of Jheri Curl and the Black Lives Matter movement.
|
|
|
|
The Radical King
by Martin Luther King
Non-Fiction. Features more than 20 works, organized by theme, by the celebrated orator and civil rights champion that highlight his revolutionary vision as a democratic socialist, his opposition to the Vietnam War, his solidarity with the poor and his fight against global imperialism.
|
|
|
|
My Life, My Love, My Legacy
by Coretta Scott King
eAudiobook. The wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist presents her full life story, as told before her death to one of her closest confidants.
|
|
|
|
30 Days a Black Man: The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
by Bill Steigerwald
Non-Fiction. Tells the story of a white journalist from Pittsburgh who lived for thirty days as a black man in the Jim Crow South alongside Atlanta's black civil rights pioneer Wesley Dobbs, an experiment that brought national attention to the shameful system of segregation.
|
|
|
|
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks
by Jeanne Theoharis
Biography. Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks’s politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought—for more than a half a century—to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice.
|
|
|
|
The Autobiography of Malcolm X
by Malcolm X
Biography, X, MALCOLM. In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time.
|
|
|
|
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Feature Films, AUTOBIOGRAPHY. The story of the life an African American woman from Louisiana, from the time of her childhood as a slave in the pre-Civil War South to 1962, when she witnesses the birth of the civil rights movement at the age of one hundred and ten.
|
|
|
|
Betty & Coretta
Feature Films, BETTY. The stories of Coretta Scott King and Betty Shabazz, and their roles in the civil rights movement during the twentieth century.
|
|
|
|
The Butler
Feature Films, BUTLER. Follows the events in Cecil Gaines' life and in the country as he works as a White House butler under eight administrations.
|
|
|
|
4 Little Girls
Feature Films, FOUR. Documents the events surrounding the 1963 bombing of an African American Baptist Church in Alabama, which resulted in the deaths of four young girls.
|
|
|
|
I Am Not Your Negro
Feature Films, I AM. Through archival interviews with James Baldwin and other footage, tells the story of racism in the United States in the twentieth century.
|
|
|
|
Judas and the Black Messiah
Feature Films, JUDAS. When William O'Neal, a career thief, is turned into an FBI informant, he is tasked with infiltrating the Illinois Black Panther Party and reporting on the actions of their leader, Chairman Fred Hampton
|
|
|
|
Malcolm X
Feature Films, MALCOLM. Inspiring story of Malcolm X, as he rises up from poverty, encounters the law, achieves spiritual enlightenment, and reaches out to others in the fight for human and civil rights.
|
|
|
|
Mississippi Burning
Feature Films, MISSISSIPPI. Two FBI agents investigate the deaths of civil rights workers in a Mississippi town and discover a local cover-up.
|
|
|
|
Nothing but a Man
Feature Films, NOTHING. A southern Black railroad worker confronts the daily challenges of discrimination and economic precarity as he attempts to settle down with his new wife and track down his father.
|
|
|
|
One Night in Miami
Feature Films, ONE. Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown meet in Miami, and discuss their respective roles in the Civil Rights Movement.
|
|
|
|
Race
Feature Films, RACE. The story of track and field legend Jesse Owens, and his record-breaking performance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany.
|
|
|
|
The Rosa Parks Story
Feature Films, ROSA. The story of Rosa Parks, an African American woman whose courage and determination helped her fight for justice and civil rights.
|
|
|
|
Selma
Feature Films, SELMA. From the Oscar-winning producers of 12 Years a Slave and acclaimed director Ava DuVernay comes the true story of the Selma to Montgomery civil rights marches, a story of courage and hope that changed the world forever.
|
|
|
|
Nationtime
Best known for his genre-bending movie Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, William Greaves (1926–2014) was the director of over 100 documentary films, the majority focused on African American history, politics, and culture. Nationtime is his vivid account of the National Black Political Convention held in Gary, Indiana, in 1972, a historic event that gathered Black delegates from across the political spectrum, among them Jesse Jackson, Dick Gregory, Coretta Scott King, Dr. Betty Shabazz, Richard Hatcher, Amiri Baraka, Charles Diggs, Isaac Hayes, Richard Roundtree and H. Carl McCall. Narrated by Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte, the film was considered too militant for television broadcast at the time and has since circulated only in a truncated 58-minute version. This new 4K restoration from IndieCollect, with funding from Jane Fonda and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, returns the film to its original 80-minute length and visual quality.
|
|
|
|
Segregation in America
Examines the history of segregation and other discriminatory policies in the United States from the Civil War to the present day.
|
|
|
|
Freedom Riders
Non-Fiction DVDs, 323.1196073. Documents the story of a group of civil rights activists who travelled by bus in the South during 1961 to challenge segregated travel facilities.
|
|
|
|
MLK / FBI
Non-Fiction DVDs, 323.1196073 M363. Explores the FBI's surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., based on declassified documents and incorporating archival footage.
|
|
|
|
Father's Kingdom
Non-Fiction DVDs, B DIVINE. The untold story of an American civil rights pioneer, Father Divine, who at one time had over a million followers worldwide but whose story is little known because he claimed that he was God incarnate.
|
|
|
|
I am MLK Jr.
Non-Fiction DVDs, B KING. Explores the life and career of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr.
|
|
|
|
John Lewis: Good Trouble
Non-Fiction DVDs, B LEWIS. Chronicles the life and career of civil rights activist and politician John Lewis.
|
|
|
|
Eyes on the Prize
Series DVDs, 323.1196073. The definitive story of the Civil Rights era from the point of view of the ordinary men and women whose extraordinary actions launched a movement that changed the fabric of American life, and embodied a struggle whose reverberations are felt today.
|
|
|
|
The Black Lives Matter Movement
by Peggy J. Parks
YA Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. Discusses the origins of the movement in the uneasy relationships that often exist between African Americans and law enforcement, the events that triggered its formation, reactions, efforts to hold police accountable, and police reform.
|
|
|
|
And We Rise: The Civil Rights Movement in Poems
by Erica Martin
YA Non-Fiction, 811.6 M363A. This debut poetry collection walks readers through the Civil Rights Movement, introducing lesser-known figures and moments just as crucial to the Movement and our nation's centuries-long fight for justice and equality.
|
|
|
|
March
by John Lewis
YA Graphic Novels, FICTION LEWIS. A multi-volume graphic account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights covers his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and his involvement in the Freedom rides and the Selma to Montgomery march.
|
|
|
|
Dear Martin
by Nic Stone
YA Fiction, STONE. Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
|
|
|
|
#BlackLivesMatter: Protesting Racism
by Rachael L Thomas
J Non-Fiction, 305.896073. In this title, readers learn about the #BlackLivesMatter movement, from the history of slavery and racism, to the slayings of Travon Martin and Michael Brown, to further efforts to end racism such as Campaign Zero, and #takeaknee, and Black Futures Lab.
|
|
|
|
Heroes for Civil Rights
by David A. Adler
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. Profiles the leaders and heroes of the civil rights movements, including Fannie Lou Hamer, the Little Rock Nine, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; examining what historical contribution they made in the effort to make equality a right for all.
|
|
|
|
Twelve Days in May: Freedom Ride 1961
by Larry Dane Brimner
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. On May 4, 1961, a group of thirteen black and white civil rights activists launched the Freedom Ride, aiming to challenge the practice of segregation on buses and at bus terminal facilities in the South. The Ride would last twelve days. Despite the fact that segregation on buses crossing state lines was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1946, and segregation in interstate transportation facilities was ruled unconstitutional in 1960, these rulings were routinely ignored in the South. The thirteen Freedom Riders intended to test the laws and draw attention to the lack of enforcement with their peaceful protest. As the Riders traveled deeper into the South, they encountered increasing violence and opposition. Noted civil rights author Larry Dane Brimner relies on archival documents and rarely seen images to tell the riveting story of the little-known first days of the Freedom Ride.
|
|
|
|
March On!: The Day My Brother Martin Changed the World
by Christine King Farris
J Non-Fiction, 323.092. Having led thousands in a march for civil rights to the foot of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. made the most of the historical moment by giving a speech that would forever inspire people to continue to fight for change in the years ahead.
|
|
|
|
We Shall Overcome: The Story of a Song
by Debbie Levy
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A celebration of the history of the struggle for freedom as reflected through moments when the iconic song, "We Shall Overcome," was sung explains how the song has come to represent civil rights and freedom around the world.
|
|
|
|
The Freedom Summer Murders
by Don Mitchell
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. A young reader's introduction to the harrowing story traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African-Americans for the vote.
|
|
|
|
Marching for Freedom: Walk Together, Children, and Don't You Grow Weary
by Elizabeth Partridge
J Non-Fiction, 323.1196073. An inspiring examination of the landmark march from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 led by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., this book focuses on the children who faced terrifying violence in order to walk alongside him in their fight for freedom and the right to vote.
|
|
|
|
Give Us the Vote!: Over 200 Years of Fighting for the Ballot
by Susan Goldman Rubin
J Non-Fiction, 324.62. The award-winning author of Freedom Summer traces 200 years of voting rights activism in the United States, covering subjects ranging from the 19th Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to the voter suppression controversies that are targeting today’s people of color, Indigenous groups and immigrants.
|
|
|
|
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by Melissa Ferguson
J Non-Fiction, 394.261 F381M. Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebrates the life of the civil rights movement leader. Some people observe the day by singing, reading, or watching movies about him. Others volunteer in their community or make peace-inspired crafts. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.
|
|
|
|
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by Joanna Ponto
J Non-Fiction, 394.261. Explains what Martin Luther King Jr. Day is and why it is celebrated.
|
|
|
|
Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day
by Trudi Strain Trueit
J Non-Fiction, 394.261 T767C. The third Monday in January is a time to remember a man who fought for peace and equality. This book discusses Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and the origins of the day named in his honor.
|
|
|
|
My Country, 'Tis of Thee: How One Song Reveals the History of Civil Rights
by Claire Rudolf Murphy
J Non-Fiction, 782.421599. An engaging chronicle of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement through the changing lyrics of a classic patriotic song reveals how its words have been transformed by generations of protestors and civil rights pioneers throughout landmark historical movements. Illustrated by the three-time Caldecott Honor-winning artist of Uptown.
|
|
|
|
Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
J Non-Fiction, 811.54. In vivid poems that reflect the joy of finding her voice through writing stories, an award-winning author shares what it was like to grow up in the 1960s and 1970s in both the North and the South.
|
|
|
|
Martin Rising: Requiem for a King
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J Non-Fiction, 811.6. The award-winning husband-and-wife team present a sumptuously illustrated tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s commitment to non-violent protest in support of civil rights, in a metaphorical and spiritually symbolic poetic requiem that covers King's final months and assassination.
|
|
|
|
Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who Changed America
by Andrea Davis Pinkney
J Non-Fiction, 973.0496. Presents the stories of 10 African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. Backmatter includes a Civil Rights timeline, sources and further reading. Illustrated by a two-time Caldecott Honor winner and multiple Coretta Scott King Book Award recipient.
|
|
|
|
Discovering Black America: From the Age of Exploration to the Twenty-First Century
by Linda Tarrant-Reid
J Non-Fiction, 973.0496. Traces more than four centuries of African-American history against a backdrop of national and world events, drawing on personal journals, interviews and archival materials to document times ranging from the Colonial period and slavery through the Civil War and the Civil Rights era.
|
|
|
|
Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial
by Katherine Rawson
J Non-Fiction, 975.3. History recognizes the leadership and voice Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. brought to the civil rights movement in 1960s America. A 30-foot tall statue of Dr. King gazes into the future full of hope for all humanity. His words of peace are carved in the walls of the monument as a reminder to all Americans of the power of peaceful protest.
|
|
|
|
Maya Angelou
by Judith E. Harper
J Biography, ANGELOU. Describes the life and writing career of the author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," as well as her victory over such obstacles as prejudice, poverty, and abuse.
|
|
|
|
March Forward, Girl: From Young Warrior to Little Rock Nine
by Melba Pattillo Beals
J Biography, BEALS. The Congressional Gold Medal-winning civil rights activist and author of the best-selling Warriors Don't Cry presents an ardent and profound childhood memoir of growing up in the face of adversity in the Jim Crow South.
|
|
|
|
This is Your Time
by Ruby Bridges
J Biography, BRIDGES. Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges—who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans—shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.
|
|
|
|
Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Jennifer Fandel
J Biography, KING. Describes the life and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., twentieth-century civil rights leader
|
|
|
|
Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Emma Lynch
J Biography, KING. Who was Martin Luther King Jr.? Why is he famous? How do we know about him? This series introduces you to the lives of famous men and women. Each illustrated life story is told by primary source material, encouraging you to discover how we find out about important people in history.
|
|
|
|
Meet Martin Luther King Jr.
by Melody S. Mis
J Biography, KING. Profiles the Baptist minister who led the movement to give African Americans civil rights, discussing his childhood, activist works, and legacy.
|
|
|
|
Martin Luther King Jr.: Civil Rights Leader
by Robert E. Jakoubek
J Biography, KING. A critically acclaimed biography series of history's most notable African Americans includes straightforward and objective writing combined with important memorabilia and photographs.
|
|
|
|
Rosa Parks: "Tired of Giving In"
by Anne E. Schraff
J Biography, PARKS. A full-color biography series features inspirational and contemporary African-Americans of interest to young people and who are important role models for all youngsters.
|
|
|
|
Rosa Parks
by Jim Whiting
J Biography, PARKS. Highlights the life and accomplishments of the civil rights leader known for her refusal to step to the back of the bus, an action which sparked a boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1955.
|
|
|
|
Meet Rosa Parks
by Melody S. Mis
J Biography, PARKS, ROSA. Profiles the African American woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus sparked a boycott and helped drive the Civil Rights Movement.
|
|
|
|
Call Him Jack: The Story of Jackie Robinson, Black Freedom Fighter
by Yohuru Williams
Juvenile Biography, ROBINSON. This compelling biography of the barrier-breaking American hero and proud fighter for Black justice and civil rights reveals the person behind the legend, bringing to life this famed figure's legacy for new generation.
|
|
|
|
Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
by Bonnie Bader
From organizing the Montgomery Bus Boycott to the launching of the Civil Rights Movement, a fascinating biography traces the life of this extraordinary man who was an advocate of the poor and spoke out against racial and economic injustice until he was assassinated in 1968.
|
|
|
|
The Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963
by Christopher Paul Curtis
J Fiction, CURTIS. When his parents decide it is time to visit Grandma, ten-year-old Kenny and his siblings, including the "juvenile delinquent" Byron, journey to Alabama during a dark period in American history. Newbery Honor. Coretta Scott King Honor.
|
|
|
|
An American Story
by Kwame Alexander
Picture Books, ALEXANDER. A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson.
|
|
|
|
The Undefeated
by Kwame Alexander
Picture Books, ALEXANDER. The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover celebrates black American heroism and culture in a picture-book rendering of his performance on ESPN's ""The Undefeated." Illustrated by the Caldecott Honor-winning artist of Henry's Freedom Box.
|
|
|
|
Fighting with Love
by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Picture Books, CLINE-RANSOME. In a beautiful prose telling, the story of a groundbreaking civil rights leader, John Lewis. John Lewis left a cotton farm in Alabama to join the fight for civil rights. He was only a teenager. He soon became a leader of a moment that changed a nation. Walking at the side of his mentor, Dr. Martin Luther King, Lewis was led by his belief in peaceful action and voting rights. Today and always his work and legacy will live on.
|
|
|
|
Go, Wilma, Go!
by Amira Rose Davis
Picture Books, DAVIS. The true story of how Olympic athlete Wilma Rudolph became a change-making civil rights activist.
|
|
|
|
Bridges Instead of Walls
by Mavis Staples
Picture Books, STAPLES. Painting a beautiful portrait of the civil rights activist and legendary singer who's still performing in front of large audiences at 85 years old, this picture book brings her story and her inspiring message of love, faith and justice to young people.
|
|
|
Michigan City Public Library
100 E. 4th Street
Michigan City, Indiana 46360
219-873-3044mclib.org/ |
|
|
|