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Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice
Presents the life of the Alabama teenager who played an integral role in the Montgomery bus strike, once by refusing to give up a bus seat, and again, by becoming a plaintiff in the landmark civil rights case against the bus company.
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Selma, Lord, Selma: girlhood memories of the civil-rights days
Sheyann Webb was eight years old and Rachel West was nine when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. arrived in Selma, Alabama, on January 2, 1965. He came to organize non-violent demonstrations against discriminatory voting laws. Selma, Lord, Selma is their firsthand account of the events from that turbulent winter of 1965--events that changed not only the lives of these two little girls but the lives of all Alabamians and all Americans. From 1975 to 1979, award-winning journalist Frank Sikora conducted interviews with Webb and West, weaving their recollections into this luminous story of fear and courage, struggle and redemption that readers will discover is Selma, Lord, Selma.
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You never heard of Willie Mays?!
\"Many believe baseball great Willie Mays to be the best player that ever lived. He hit 660 home runs (fourth best of all time), had a lifetime batting average of .302, and is second only to Babe Ruth on The Sporting News's list of \"Baseball's 100 Greatest Players.\" In Jonah Winter and Terry Widener's fascinating picture book biography, young readers can follow Mays's unparalleled career from growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, to playing awe-inspiring ball in the Negro Leagues and then the Majors, where he was center fielder for the New York (later San Francisco) Giants. Complete with sidebars filled with stats, here is a book for all baseball lovers, young and old.\" --Amazon.com.
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I am Rosa Parks
Recounts Rosa Parks' daring effort to stand up for herself and other African Americans by helping to end segregation on public transportation.
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The House by the Side of the Road
On Sunday, March 7, 1965, Martin Luther King Jr. and six
hundred followers set out on foot from Selma, Alabama, bound for
Montgomery to demand greater voting rights for African Americans.
As they crossed the city’s Edmund Pettus Bridge, state and
local policemen savagely set on the marchers with tear gas and
billy clubs, an event now known as “Bloody Sunday”
that would become one of the most iconic in American history.
King’s informal headquarters in Selma was the home of Dr.
Sullivan and Richie Jean Sherrod Jackson and their young
daughter, Jawana.
The House by the Side of the Road is Richie Jean’s
firsthand account of the private meetings King and his
lieutenants, including Ralph David Abernathy and John Lewis, held
in the haven of the Jackson home. Sullivan Jackson was an African
American dentist in Selma and a prominent supporter of the civil
rights movement. Richie Jean was a close childhood friend of
King’s wife, Coretta Scott King, a native of nearby Marion,
Alabama. Richie Jean’s fascinating account narrates how, in
the fraught months of 1965 that preceded the Voting Rights March,
King and his inner circle held planning sessions and met with
Assistant Attorney General John Doar to negotiate strategies for
the event. Just eight days after Bloody Sunday, President Lyndon
Johnson made a televised addressed to a joint session of Congress
on Monday, March 15. Jackson relates the intimate scene of King
and his lieutenants watching as Johnson called the nation to
dedicate itself to equal rights for all and ending his address
with the words: “We shall overcome.” Five months
later, Congress passed the 1965 Voting Rights Act on August 6.
The major motion picture
Selma now commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of
Bloody Sunday and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. In it, Niecy Nash
and Kent Faulcon star as Sullivan and Richie Jean Jackson among a
cast including Oprah Winfrey, Tom Wilkinson, and Cuba Gooding Jr.
A gripping primary source,
The House by the Side of the Road illuminates the
private story whose public outcomes electrified the world and
changed the course of American history.
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Rosa Parks
The My Itty-Bitty Bio series are biographies for the earliest readers. This book examines the life of Rosa Parks in a simple, age-appropriate way that will help children develop word recognition and reading skills.
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Beside the Troubled Waters
A memoir by an African American physician in Alabama whose
story in many ways typifies the lives and careers of black
doctors in the south during the segregationist era
Beside the Troubled Waters is a memoir by an African
American physician in Alabama whose story in many ways typifies
the lives and careers of black doctors in the south during the
segregationist era while also illustrating the diversity of the
black experience in the medical profession. Based on interviews
conducted with Hereford over ten years, the account includes his
childhood and youth as the son of a black sharecropper and
Primitive Baptist minister in Madison County, Alabama, during the
Depression; his education at Huntsville’s all-black
CouncillSchool and medical training at MeharryMedicalCollege in
Nashville; his medical practice in Huntsville’s black
community beginning in 1956; his efforts to overcome the racism
he met in the white medical community; his participation in the
civil rights movement in Huntsville; and his later problems with
the Medicaid program and state medical authorities, which
eventually led to the loss of his license.
Hereford’s
memoir stands out because of its medical and civil rights themes,
and also because of its compelling account of the professional
ruin Hereford encountered after 37 years of practice, as the end
of segregation and the federal role in medical care placed black
doctors in competition with white ones for the first time.
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