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Find Your Voice! Nonfiction!
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Schneider Gr. 3-5 Book Recs March 2022
OBD Find Your Voice! Summer Reading 2023 - YOUTH
Schneider Gr. 3-5 Book Recs March 2022
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"Across history, activists have worked, marched, and spoken out for equality and justice--and many had moving, relatable childhood stories. Martin Luther King Jr. argued with his dad about whether dancing was a sin. Harvey Milk had a passion for opera. Dolores Huerta was wrongly accused of plagiarizing. Kid activists tells these stories and more through engaging biographies and full-color illustrations on nearly every page. Learn about Susan B. Anthony,...
3) The rabbi and the reverend: Joachim Prinz, Martin Luther King Jr., and their fight against silence
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"This is the story of two men, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Rabbi Joachim Prinz, an immigrant from Nazi Germany, with a shared belief that remaining silent in the face of injustice was wrong"--
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Black History Month - ROD Children's
Black History Month - Youth
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
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 2023 - Teens
Diversity Awareness Month - Teen
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Women's History Month 2024 - Teens
Diversity Awareness Month - Teen
Women's History Month (teens)
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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It was 1961. John Lewis and Jim Zwerg are two young men boarding a bus and heading south for Montgomery, Alabama and the thick of the brewing Civil Rights struggle. They are idealists, committed to justice and equality and full of hope for change. This is their Freedom Ride. Arriving in town, suddenly they find themselves helpless in the clutches of an angry white mob armed with bats, chains, and hammers. Both men are beaten within an inch of their...
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"Starting in the 1960s, John Lewis began his activism alongside civil rights legend and good friend Martin Luther King Jr. He participated in many now-historic events, including the 1963 March on Washington, the Freedom Rides, and the Selma to Montgomery marches across the Edmund Pettus Bridge. John continued his impactful career when he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1986. He went on to serve seventeen terms until his death in 2020....
10) Coretta Scott
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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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"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"--
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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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The Civil War finally ended slavery in the United States in 1865. But blacks didn't suddenly enjoy all the rights other Americans took for granted. They had to struggle against racism and discrimination to claim those rights. African-American Activists traces that generations-long struggle. In this book, you'll meet early activists like Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois, who had very different ideas about how blacks should take their place...
17) John Lewis
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"U.S. Congressman John Lewis was an activist for civil rights who dedicated his life to protecting human rights. Read about his path in life that led him to become a politician in the service of others."--
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Black History Month - Youth
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
Eisenhower Public Library Kids Black History Month
OBD Black History Month (February) - YOUTH
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For twelve history-making days in May 1961, thirteen black and white civil rights activists, also known as the Freedom Riders, traveled by bus into the South to draw attention to the unconstitutional segregation still taking place. Despite their peaceful protests, the Freedom Riders were met with increasing violence the further south they traveled.
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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"--
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