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3) Maya Angelou
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she stopped speaking for five years. However, Maya rediscovered her voice through wonderful books, and went on to become one of the world's most beloved writers and speakers. This inspiring story of her life features a facts and photos section at the back."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Ella Josephine Baker (1903-1986) was among the most influential strategists of the most important social movement in modern U.S. history, the Civil Rights Movement, yet most Americans have never heard of her. Behind the scenes, she organized on behalf of the major civil rights organizations of her day-the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC), and the Student Nonviolent...
Author
Language
English
Description
The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there...
10) Georgia Gilmore
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media, a division of Carson Dellosa Education
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Georgia Gilmore was an amazing cook. She had a big heart and loved to help others. When the cost to fund the Montgomery Bus Boycott became high, Georgia stepped in. She baked, fried, and simmered food to sell. Each week she donated all proceeds to the Civil Rights leaders.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In Until There Is Justice, author Jennifer Scanlon presents the first-ever biography of Hedgeman. Through a commitment to faith-based activism, civil rights, and feminism, Hedgeman participated in and led some of the 20th century's most important developments, including advances in education, public health, politics, and workplace justice. Simultaneously a dignified woman and scrappy freedom fighter, Hedgeman's life upends conventional understandings...
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The Rev. Dr. Anna Pauline "Pauli" Murray (1910-1985) was a trailblazing social activist, writer, lawyer, civil rights organizer, and campaigner for gender rights. In the 1930s and 1940s, she was active in radical left-wing political groups and helped innovate nonviolent protest strategies against segregation that would become iconic in later decades, and in the 1960s, she cofounded the National Organization for Women (NOW). In addition, Murray became...
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"This book commemorates and explores the life of one of Mississippi's great civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an intrepid group which tried to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi during the 1964 Democratic National Convention"--Provided by publisher.
18) Pauli Murray
Author
Series
Publisher
Rourke Educational Media
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Who was Pauli Murray? Children will love learning about this activist who fought for different rights and became the first African American woman to be ordained as an Episcopal priest."--
19) Ida B. Wells
Author
Series
Publisher
Pebble, a Capstone Imprint
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"How much do you know about Ida B. Wells? Find out the facts you need to know about this journalist and activist. You'll learn about the early life, challenges, and major accomplishments of this important American"--
20) Rosa Parks
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail & triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before & after her historic act, & how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow?...
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