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Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement

Anderson, Devery S.

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Emmett Till: The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement offers the first, and as of 2018, only comprehensive account of the 1955 murder, the trial, and the 2004-2007 FBI investigation into the case and Mississippi grand jury decision. By all accounts, it...

I know why the caged bird sings

Angelou, Maya.

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Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American...

The yellow house

Broom, Sarah M.

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Between the world and me

Coates, Ta-Nehisi.

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Hurston, Zora Neale

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Vanguard : how black women broke barriers, won the vote, and insisted on equality for all

Jones, Martha S.

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The sword and the shield : the revolutionary lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.

Joseph, Peniel E.

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True : the four seasons of Jackie Robinson

Kennedy, Kostya

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My life, my love, my legacy

King, Coretta Scott

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Kix, Paul

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From journalist Paul Kix, the riveting story, never before fully told, of the 1963 Birmingham Campaign--ten weeks that would shape the course of the Civil Rights Movement and the future of America. It's one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a...

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Lewis, John.

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Welcoming justice : God's movement toward beloved community

Marsh, Charles

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A dream of freedom : the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1968

McWhorter, Diane.

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NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER · A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft an extraordinary testament to people who are left out of the archives. In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named...

The Other Wes Moore One Name, Two Fates

Moore, Wes.

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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance

Obama, Barack.

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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has...

Becoming

Obama, Michelle

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Hidden figures : the untold true story of four African-American women who helped launch our nation into space

Shetterly, Margot Lee

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The uplifting, amazing true story--a New York Times bestseller! This edition of Margot Lee Shetterly's acclaimed book is perfect for young readers. It's the powerful story of four African-American female mathematicians at NASA who helped achieve some of the greatest moments in our space...

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Stevenson, Bryan

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A more beautiful and terrible history : the uses and misuses of civil rights history

Theoharis, Jeanne

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Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement. The civil rights movement...

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Trethewey, Natasha D.

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Black boy : (American hunger) : a record of childhood and youth

Wright, Richard

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Richard Wright's powerful account of his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. It is at once an unashamed confession and a profound indictment--a poignant and disturbing record of social injustice and human suffering. When Black...

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