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Black History Month - Youth
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
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"A picture book about the life of civil rights activist Ella Baker"--Provided by publisher.
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Black History Month
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Telling a People's Story
Black History Month - Youth
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
Telling a People's Story
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This extraordinary union of poetry and monumental artwork captures the movement for civil rights in the United States, and honors it's most elegant inspiration, Coretta Scott.
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This picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir paints a vivid portrait of the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a singular 20th-century American civil and human rights activist who fought for justice against all odds, becoming an unforgettable champion of social change.
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Question: Who was known as the First Lady of the U.S. civil rights movement? Answer: Coretta Scott King. She helped her husband, Martin Luther King Jr., fight for equal rights for African Americans in the 1950's and 1960's. After his death, she continued to speak out for peace and equality for all people.
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"Born into slavery in 1862, Ida Bell Wells was freed as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865. Yet she could see just how unjust the world she was living in was. This drove her to become a journalist and activist. Throughout her life, she fought against prejudice and for equality for African Americans. Ida B. Wells would go on to co-own a newspaper, write several books, help co found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored...
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MLK Day 2024: Titles for Kids
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
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"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 segregation"--
11) Maya Angelou
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OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Little People Big Dreams Day (Sept. 23) - YOUTH
OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
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"Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful books, and went on to become one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers. This inspiring story of her life features a facts and photos section at the back."--Page 4 of cover.
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Women's History Month 2024
Women's History Month 2024: Kids
Black History Month for Kids
Women's History Month 2024
Women's History Month 2024: Kids
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"Told through twelve short biographies, this book celebrates just some of the many Black women--each of whom has been largely underrepresented until now--who were instrumental to the nation's fight for civil rights and the contributions they made in driving the Movement forward"--
14) Ida B. Wells
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Presents the life and accomplishments of the activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horrors of lynching who set out to better the lives of African-Americans long before the Civil Rights Movement.
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"An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells-who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader-as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster"--
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Black History Month 2023 - Teens
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Women's History Month 2024 - Teens
Diversity Awareness Month - Teen
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Women's History Month 2024 - Teens
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Written in verse, this inspiring biography chronicles the life of a queer civil and women's rights activist who fought for many of the rights taken for granted today, working tirelessly for human rights and the dignity of life for all.
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"In the late 1800s and early 1900s, mobs of white people killed thousands of African Americans in the United States. These killings were called lynchings. Mobs lynched Black people for minor or perceived insults. Often the victims had not committed a crime. But they did not receive a fair trial. White people used lynchings to control and oppress Black people. Black journalist Ida Wells was one of the first to investigate lynchings. She researched...
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OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
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OBD Women's History Month (March) - YOUTH
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Biography of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a journalist and teacher who wrote about and spoke against the injustices suffered by African-Americans.
20) Dorothy Height
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"Growing up as a Black girl in the 1920s and 1930s, Dorothy Height was denied access to a local swimming pool as well as admission to Barnard College because of her race. But she persisted in pushing for change, and became a seminal figure in both the civil rights and women's rights movements. She went on to be awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom. "--
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