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Let's meet Ida B. Wells-Barnett
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Helen Frost |
Simple text and photographs introduce the life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a journalist who wrote about and spoke against the unfair treatment of African Americans. |
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Princess of the press
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Angela Shelf Medearis |
A biography of the journalist, newspaper owner, and suffragette who campaigned for civil rights and founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. |
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Rosa Parks
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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… |
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Coretta Scott King
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Dale Evva Gelfand |
"Biography of the wife of assassinated civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr."--From source other than the Library of Congress |
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Looking for Lorraine
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Imani Perry |
Lorraine Hansberry, who died at thirty-four, was by all accounts a force of nature. Although best-known for her work A Raisin in the Sun, her short life was full of extraordinary experiences and achi… |
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Maya Angelou
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Lisbeth Kaiser |
The book follows Maya Angelou, from her early traumatic childhood to her time as a singer, actress, civil rights campaigner and, eventually, one of America's most beloved writers. This inspiring and … |
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Mississippi Harmony
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Winson Hudson |
"A lifelong native of the rural, all-black community of Harmony, Winson has lived through some of the most racially oppressive periods in her state's history - and has devoted her life to combating d… |
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