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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Rosa Parks Rosa Parks Wil Mara A simple introduction to the life of the woman whose actions led to the desegregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama, in the 1960s and who was an important figure in the early days of the civil righ… OL1854043W
What truth sounds like What truth sounds like Michael Eric Dyson "In 1963 Attorney General Robert Kennedy sought out James Baldwin to explain the rage that threatened to engulf black America. Baldwin brought along some friends, including playwright Lorraine Hansbe… OL19736259W
King King Ho Che Anderson "Ho Che Anderson's biography of America's great civil rights advocate Martin Luther King is both a monumental recreation of his tumultuous public life (and death) and an intimate portrait of the man … OL19954774W
I Have a Dream : Martin Luther King and the Fight for Equal Rights I Have a Dream : Martin Luther King and the Fight for Equal Rights Anita Ganeri "Describes the life, accomplishments, and assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr"--Provided by publisher. OL21218366W
Risking everything Risking everything Michael Edmonds "Risking Everything : A Freedom Summer Reader documents the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, when SNCC and CORE workers and volunteers arrived in the Deep South to register voters and teach n… OL23180607W
Dark princess Dark princess W. E. B. Du Bois 29, 311 p. 24 cm OL28596W
Martin Luther King, Jr Martin Luther King, Jr Anita Ganeri A comprehensive biography of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., which points out how effectively he used nonviolence as a weapon against hatred and injustice. OL442896W
Daisy Bates Daisy Bates Amy Polakow A biography of the civil rights activist who led the fight to integrate schools in Little Rock, Arkansas, during the 1950s. OL5958491W
April 4, 1968 April 4, 1968 Michael Eric Dyson On April 4, 1968, at 6:01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King-the prophet for racial and economic … OL92695W