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And the children shall lead

1984
Rachel and her friends, both black and white, must reunite the adults of Catesville, Mississippi after a visit by a group of civil rights activists in 1964.

Character education collection

1990
Three stories for children about inspirational characters and historical figures.

Where do we go from here

chaos or community?
2010
Civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., discusses race relations in the United States, his hopes for the country's future, and thoughts on labor, housing, education, and ways to eliminate poverty.

Lunch at the five and ten

the Greensboro sit-ins: a contemporary history
1970
A detailed account of the sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which ignited the civil rights movement in the United States.

The jihad next door

the Lackawanna six and rough justice in an age of terror
2007
Offers a portrait of a group of young Yemeni-American men from an upstate New York steel town near Buffalo, who in spring 2001 attended an al-Qaeda camp and who may--or may not--have become America's first sleeper cell of Islamic terrorists.

I have a dream

the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
2006
A brief biography of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., told in his own voice, beginning in his childhood, and continuing to the day before his death in Memphis, Tennessee.

Bearing the cross

Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
1988
An account of the life of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom's children

young civil rights activists tell their own stories
1994
Southern blacks who were young and involved in the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s describe their experiences.

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