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Rosa / by Giovanni, Nikki.; Collier, Bryan;
Subjects: Parks, Rosa, 1913-; African American women; African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights workers; Segregation in transportation;
© c2005., Henry Holt,
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Stella by starlight / by Draper, Sharon M.(Sharon Mills); Simms, Heather Alicia.;
Read by Heather Alicia Simms.When a burning cross set by the Klan causes panic and fear in 1932 Bumblebee, North Carolina, fifth-grader Stella must face prejudice and find the strength to demand change in her segregated town.Ages 9-13.
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Prejudices; Segregation; Civil rights; African Americans;
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His truth is marching on : John Lewis and the power of hope / by Meacham, Jon,author.; Lewis, John,1940-2020,writer of afterword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson and Martin Luther King, Jr. A believer in hope above all else, Lewis learned from a young age that nonviolence was not only a tactic but a philosophy, a biblical imperative, and a transforming reality. At the age of four, Lewis, ambitious to become a preacher, practiced by preaching to the chickens he took care of. When his mother cooked one of the chickens, the boy refused to eat it--his first act of non-violent protest. Integral to Lewis's commitment to bettering the nation was his faith in humanity and in God, and an unshakable belief in the power of hope. Meacham calls Lewis "as important to the founding of a modern and multiethnic twentieth- and twenty-first century America as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison and Samuel Adams were to the initial creation of the nation-state in the eighteenth century. He did what he did--risking limb and life to bear witness for the powerless in the face of the powerful--not in spite of America, but because of America, and not in spite of religion, but because of religion"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Lewis, John, 1940-2020.; United States. Congress. House; African American civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; Legislators; Protest movements;
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I rise / by Arnold, Marie.;
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Subjects: Teenage girls; Mothers and daughters; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Racism; Police brutality;
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Sometimes people march / by Allen, Tessa,author,illustrator.; Fleming, Je Nie,1977-narrator.; Container of (expression):Allen, Tessa.Sometimes people march.Spoken word (Fleming);
Read by Je Nie Fleming.With a spare, inspiring text and gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this is a timeless and important book for activists of all ages. This hardcover picture book is perfect for sharing and for gifting. Sometimes people march to resist injustice, to stand in solidarity, to inspire hope. Throughout American history, one thing remains true: no matter how or why people march, they are powerful because they march together.3-8P-3
Subjects: Children's audiobooks.; Book plus audio.; Dyslexia-friendly books.; Demonstrations; Demonstrations.; Protest movements; Protest movements.; Civil rights; Civil rights.; JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States.; JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / United States.; JUVENILE NONFICTION / Social Science / Politics & Government.; VOX books.;
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How we can win : race, history and changing the money game that's rigged / by Jones, Kimberly(Kimberly Latrice),author.;
Includes bibliographical references."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.""--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Jones, Kimberly (Kimberly Latrice); African American civil rights workers; African American women social reformers; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; African Americans; Social movements;
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The second : race and guns in a fatally unequal America / by Anderson, Carol,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the New York Times bestselling author of White Rage, an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment--and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception. In The Second, historian and award-winning, bestselling author of White Rage Carol Anderson powerfully illuminates the history and impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable. The Second is neither a "pro-gun" nor an "anti-gun" book; the lens is the citizenship rights and human rights of African Americans. From the eighteenth century, when it was encoded into law that the enslaved could not own, carry, or use a firearm whatsoever, until today, with measures to expand and curtail gun ownership aimed disproportionately at the African American population, the right to bear arms has been consistently used as a weapon to keep African Americans powerless--revealing that armed or unarmed, Blackness, it would seem, is the threat that must be neutralized and punished. Throughout American history to the twenty-first century, regardless of the laws, court decisions, and changing political environment, the Second has consistently meant this: That the second a Black person exercises this right, the second they pick up a gun to protect themselves (or the second that they don't), their life--as surely as Philando Castile's, Tamir Rice's, Alton Sterling's--may be snatched away in that single, fatal second. Through compelling historical narrative merging into the unfolding events of today, Anderson's penetrating investigation shows that the Second Amendment is not about guns but about anti-Blackness, shedding shocking new light on another dimension of racism in America"--
Subjects: United States.; Firearms; Firearms ownership; Gun control; African Americans;
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Ida B. the queen : the extraordinary life and legacy of Ida B. Wells / by Duster, Michelle,author.; Giorgis, Hannah,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
Subjects: Biographies.; Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931.; African American women civil rights workers; African American women journalists; African American women social reformers; Civil rights workers; African American women;
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Demon Mineral. by Austin, Hadley,film director.; Video Project (Firm),dst; Kanopy (Firm),dst;
Originally produced by Video Project in 2023.DEMON MINERAL can be considered an anti-Western, flipping the classical cinematic paradigm by centering the voices and experiences of the Diné community to explore the legacy of uranium mining in Diné Bikeyah, the sacred homelands of the Navajo where over 500 unremediated mines are scattered across an area the size of West Virginia. In the span of just four generations entire ways of living have been lost or severely compromised, as mining has contaminated the air, water, livestock, and land upon which the community relies for its existence. The film also celebrates the actions the Diné community is taking to fight against new mines and improve life in an irradiated ecosystem which has resulted in a sharp rise in cancer, kidney failure, and other diseases.Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Health.; Science.; Environmental sciences.; Foreign study.; Documentary films.; Indigenous peoples.; Ethnicity.; Environment.; Indians of North America.; Environmentalism.; Environmental health.; Indigenous peoples--Civil rights.; Deserts.; Navajo Indians.;
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Melody lifts her voice / by Alston, Bria.; Gordon, Parker-Nia.; Salabie, Shiane.; Patrick, Denise Lewis.;
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Subjects: Girls; Singers; Helping behavior; Civil rights movements; African Americans; Discrimination;
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