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1) #1960now: photographs of civil rights activists and black lives matter protests

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Bright, Sheila Pree

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Sheila Pree Bright's moving photographs of Civil Rights activists and Black Lives Matter protests--

2) Alabama's civil rights trail: an illustrated guide to the cradle of freedom

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Gaillard, Frye

Series

Alabama the forge of history

3) Baltimore civil rights leader Victorine Q. Adams: the power of the ballot

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Jones, Ida

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Victorine Quille Adams was a Baltimore native and the first African American woman elected to the city council. Born in 1912, she lived through stringent segregation, racial violence and economic turbulence. Educated at Morgan State and Coppin State Universities, she took to the classroom and enriched the lives of her students. In 1946, she founded the Colored Women's Democratic Campaign Committee to educate African American women about the vote and...

4) Carry me home: Birmingham, Alabama : the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution

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McWhorter, Diane

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Offers a detailed account of the civil rights battle in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963, and discusses why those events signaled a turning point in the movement.

5) Conviction: the murder trial that powered Thurgood Marshall's fight for civil rights

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Nicks, Denver

6) Deep delta justice: a Black teen, his lawyer, and their groundbreaking battle for civil rights in the South

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Van Meter, Matthew

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"In 1966 in a small town in Louisiana, a 19-year-old black man named Gary Duncan pulled his car off the road to stop a fight. Duncan was arrested a few minutes later for the crime of putting his hand on the arm of a white child. Rather than accepting his fate, Duncan found Richard Sobol, a brilliant, 29-year-old lawyer from New York who was the only white attorney at "the most radical law firm" in New Orleans. Against them stood one of the most powerful...

7) Down to the crossroads: civil rights, Black power, and the Meredith march against fear

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Goudsouzian, Aram

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"On June 5, 1966, the civil rights hero James Meredith left Memphis, Tennessee, on foot. Setting off toward Jackson, Mississippi, he hoped his march would promote Black voter registration and defy racism. The next day, he was shot by a mysterious white man and transferred to a hospital. What followed was one of the key dramas of the civil rights era ... Tracking rural demonstrators' courage and impassioned debates among movement leaders, [the author]...

8) Driving while Black: African American travel and the road to civil rights

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Sorin, Gretchen Sullivan

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"The ultimate symbol of independence and possibility, the automobile has shaped this country from the moment the first Model T rolled off Henry Ford's assembly line. Yet cars have always held distinct importance for African Americans, allowing black families to evade the many dangers presented by an entrenched racist society and to enjoy, in some measure, the freedom of the open road. Gretchen Sorin recovers a forgotten history of black motorists,...

9) Emmett Till: the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement

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Anderson, Devery S

10) The Eyes on the prize civil rights reader

11) Freedom now!: forgotten photographs of the Civil Rights struggle

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Berger, Martin A

12) Hanging bridge: racial violence and America's civil rights century

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Ward, Jason Morgan

13) Julius Chambers: a life in the legal struggle for civil rights

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Rosen, Richard A

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Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategic litigation campaign for civil rights, ultimately winning landmark school and employment desegregation cases at the U.S. Supreme...

14) Lighting the fires of freedom: African American women in the civil rights movement

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Bell, Janet Dewart

15) The march on Washington: jobs, freedom, and the forgotten history of civil rights

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Jones, William Powell

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It was the final speech of a long day, August 28, 1963, when hundreds of thousands gathered on the Mall for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In a resounding cadence, Martin Luther King Jr. lifted the crowd when he told of his dream that all Americans would join together to realize the founding ideal of equality. The power of the speech created an enduring symbol of the march and the larger civil rights movement. King's speech still inspires...

16) Mighty justice: my life in civil rights

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Roundtree, Dovey Johnson

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"In Mighty Justice, trailblazing African American civil rights attorney Dovey Johnson Roundtree recounts her inspiring life story that speaks movingly and urgently to our racially troubled times. From the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, to the segregated courtrooms of the nation's capital; from the male stronghold of the army where she broke gender and color barriers to the pulpits of churches where women had waited for years for the right to...

17) Race against time: a reporter reopens the unsolved murder cases of the civil rights era

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Mitchell, Jerry

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"An award-winning investigative reporter shares the real-life detective story of how Klansmen came to justice in notorious unsolved civil rights cold cases--decades after they had gotten away with murder"-- Mitchell takes readers on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the civil rights movement. His work played a central role in bringing killers to justice for the assassination...

18) Racial reckoning: prosecuting America's civil rights murders

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Romano, Renee Christine

19) Reporting civil rights

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Library of America volume 137-138

20) Revolution in black and white: photographs of the Civil Rights Era by Ernest C. Withers

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Withers, Ernest C

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"Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement. Withers worked primarily a local photographer, as a freelancer...