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c2001 | 1st ed. | Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children | 1 v. (unpaged) col. ill. 29 cm. | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 1 available JB KIN | |
c2001 | 1st ed. | Hyperion Books for Children | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | Available at another library
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2007 | 1st Jump at the Sun pbk. ed. | Jump at the Sun / Hyperion Paperbacks for Children | 1 v. (unpaged) : ill. ; 28 cm. | Available at another library
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A portrait of a man whose dream changed America.
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 1 available
JB KIN
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2004 | 1st American ed. | DK Pub | 127 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 20 cm. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 1 available JB KIN |
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[2016] | Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrated (chiefly col.) ; 20 cm. | English | Available at another library
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[2016] | Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC | 1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations, photographs ; 27 x 27 cm. | English | Available at another library
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"A biography of Martin Luther King Jr. that tells the story of how he used nonviolence to lead the civil rights movement"--
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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Simple text describes the life and accomplishement of Martin Luther King Jr., his role in the Civil Rights movement and his assassination.
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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2020. | First edition. | Basic Books | viii, 373 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available at another library
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"The Sword and the Shield is a dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King that transforms our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders. Peniel E. Joseph reveals a nuanced portrait of two men who, despite markedly different backgrounds, inspired and pushed each other throughout their adult lives. This is a strikingly revisionist biography, not only of Malcolm and Martin, but also of the movement and era...
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c1990 | Scholastic | 72 p. : ill. ; 16 x 21 cm. | English | Available at another library
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Description
Answers many questions about Martin Luther King, Jr. and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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Publisher Annotation: Young readers can now learn about one of the greatest civil rights leaders of all time, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in this Level 3 Step into Reading Biography Reader. Set against Dr. King?s historic march on Washington in the summer of 1963, a moving story and powerful illustrations combine to illuminate not only one of America?s most celebrated leaders, but also one of America?s most celebrated moments. Step 3 Readers feature...
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The library does not own any copies of this title.
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Photographs and text trace the progression of the civil rights movement and its effect on history through biographical sketches of four prominent and influential African Americans: Frederick Douglass, Marcus Garvey, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available
305.5 Wilkerson
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2020] | First edition. | Random House | xvii, 476 pages ; 23 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available 305.5 Wilkerson |
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available
CD 305.5 Wilkerson
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[2020] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 12 audio discs (14 1/2 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available CD 305.5 Wilkerson |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
10 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2020 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available
LGP 305.5 Wilkerson
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2021. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 709 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available LGP 305.5 Wilkerson |
Description
"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available
FIC Whitehead
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2019. | First edition. | Doubleday | 213 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available FIC Whitehead |
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available
CD Whitehead
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[2019] | Unabridged. | Books on Tape | 6 audio discs (7 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available CD Whitehead |
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[2019] | Unabridged. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player (approximately 7 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | Available at another library
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2019 | OverDrive/Libby | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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2019 | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
2 copies, 2 people are on the wait list.
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[2019] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | 336 pages (large print) ; 21 cm | English | Available at another library
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Description
In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
12) March: Book one
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March volume 2
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 2 available
YGN Lewis
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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2013. | Top Shelf Productions | 121 pages : black-and-white illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 2 available YGN Lewis |
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2013 | OverDrive/Libby | Collected | Top Shelf Productions | English | Available Online
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English | Available Online
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2013 | Collected | Top Shelf Productions | English | Available Online
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This graphic novel is Congressman John Lewis' first-hand account of his lifelong struggle for civil and human rights, meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' personal story, it also reflects on the highs and lows of the broader civil rights movement. Book One spans Lewis' youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., the birth of the Nashville...
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1997 | 1st 1997 ed. | Random House | 272 p. ; 22 cm. | Available at another library
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c1981 | 1st ed. | Random House,Bantam (pbk) | 272 p. ; 324 p. (pbk) 22 cm. | Available at another library
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1997, c1981 | Bantam Books | 324 p. ; 21 cm. | Available at another library
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2009. | Random House trade pbk. ed. | Random House Trade Paperbacks | 336 pages ; 21 cm. | English | Available at another library
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This fourth autobiographical work by Maya Angelou tells of her entry into New York's circle of African-American artists and writers, her involvement in the civil rights movement, and changes in her personal life.
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available
973 Meacham
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | First edition. | Random House | xii, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available 973 Meacham |
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[2018] | Unabridged. | Penguin Random House | 9 audio discs (11 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another library
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2018 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available
LGP 320.97 Meacham
Publication Date | Edition | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2018] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xiv, 751 pages (large print) ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available LGP 320.97 Meacham |
Description
"The current climate of partisan fury is not new, and ...Meacham shows us how what Lincoln called the "better angels of our nature" have won the day. Painting surprising portraits of Presidents, including Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, and others, and illuminating the courage of such influential citizen activists as Martin Luther King,...
15) March: Book two
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March volume 1
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 2 available
YGN Lewis
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[2015] | Top Shelf Productions | 187 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 2 available YGN Lewis |
Description
"After the success of the Nashville sit-in campaign, John Lewis is more committed than ever to changing the world through nonviolence -- but as he and his fellow Freedom Riders board a bus into the vicious heart of the deep south, they will be tested like never before."--page 3 of cover.
16) The undefeated
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Red Clover Award - Picture Book Area 1 available
PB Alexander
Publication Date | Publisher | Physical Description | Language | Availability | |
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[2019] | Versify/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Red Clover Award - Picture Book Area 1 available PB Alexander |
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
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c2002 | 1st ed. | Random House | 212 p. ; 22 cm. | English | Available at another library
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Distributed by Books on Tape | 4 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available at another library
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Random House | 4 sound discs (ca. 5 hrs.) : | Available at another library
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2002 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available
LGP B ANG
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c2002 | 1st large print ed. | Random House | 274 p. (lg. print) ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available LGP B ANG |
Description
The sixth in Maya Angelou's autobiographical series, beginning in 1964 when she returned to the U.S. from Africa to work with Malcolm X, discussing her reaction to his assassination, her firsthand view of the Watts riots, her subsequent work with Martin Luther King Jr., and the impact of his death on her life and career.
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B Lewis
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[2020] | First edition. | Random House | xii, 354 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available B Lewis |
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2020 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
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[2020] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xii, 619 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available at another library
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Description
"John Lewis, who at age twenty-five marched in Selma and was beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, is a visionary and a man of faith. Using intimate interviews with Lewis and his family and deep research into the history of the civil rights movement, Meacham writes of how the activist and leader was inspired by the Bible, his mother's unbreakable spirit, his sharecropper father's tireless ambition, and his teachers in nonviolence, Reverend James Lawson...
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B Douglass
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2018. | First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition. | Simon & Schuster | xx, 888 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available B Douglass |
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Simon & Schuster | English | Available Online
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2018 | Simon & Schuster | English | Available Online
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"Frederick Douglass was the most important African American of the nineteenth century and one of the most significant writers and orators in American history. David Blight's long-awaited authoritative biography of this great American is based in part on papers never seen by previous biographers. Douglass was born a slave and escaped at the age of twenty. He was fortunate to have learned to read as a boy, and he would develop this skill forbidden to...
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Magic tree house fact trackers volume 28
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c2014. | Random House | 120 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. | English | Available at another library
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Description
Jack and Annie learn amazing facts about six history-changing individuals, including Susan B. Anthony, Mahatma Ghandi, Martin Luther King, Jr., John Muir, Florence Nightingale ,and Harriet Tubman.