civil rights movement

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civil rights movement

In a Class of Her Own - "Time Line" (Graphic Novel)

2006
Graphic novel representation of six-year-old Ruby Bridges and her integration as the first African-American child in an all-white New Orleans school.

Rosa Parks, My Story

1992
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated bus and sparked the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott.

The assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

2008
Chronicles the events leading up to, and the immediate aftermath of, the murder of one of the best-known figures in the United States civil rights movement.

Postwar literature, 1945-1970

research guide to American literature
2010

The Bill of Rights

a user's guide
1995
Describes the history and development of the first ten Constitutional amendments, also known as the Bill of Rights, and presents stories of the many people who have helped to keep it a living document.

Leon's story

2000
Autobiography of Leon Water Tillage who was a sharecropper in North Carolina in the 1940s.

Between us baxters

2009
In 1959 Georgia, Polly, a twelve-year-old white girl, and Timbre Ann, a fourteen-year-old African-American, find their friendship tested when arsonists begin setting fires to businesses owned by African-Americans and the townspeople are separated by Jim Crow laws.

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