In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America and earned Rosa Parks the title "Mother of the Civil Rights...
Civil rights workers
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Auteur:McDonough, Yona ZeldisSommaire: - Auteur:Bader, BonnieSommaire:
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights. Maintaining...
- Auteur:Robinson, C. KellySommaire:
Deacon Davis struggles to regain his dignity after his debilitating speech impediment provokes his forced resignation from the first African American political party. Haunted by the fact that his handicap prevents him from upholding his...
- Auteur:Dennis, David J.Sommaire:
A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, this is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied...
- Auteur:Giovanni, NikkiSommaire:
Account of Rosa Parks's decision to stay in her bus seat in 1955 Alabama, in defiance of segregation laws. Explains the resulting bus boycott by civil rights activists that led to the Supreme Court ruling ending racial segregation...
- Auteur:Sharpton, AlSommaire:
Al Sharpton shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things--like Pauli Murray, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same, and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing...
- Auteur:Phillips, Donald T.Sommaire:
Chronicles the leadership style of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.during the most tumultuous period in America's recent past. Offers a powerful lesson that can be applied to life, business or any endeavor.
- Auteur:Eig, JonathanSommaire:
Winner of the 2024 Audie Award for Best Nonfiction Narrator! This program is narrated by Dion Graham, narrator of over 300 audiobooks and an AudioFile Golden Voice. Dion has won multiple Earphones and Audie Awards. "Dion Graham...
- Auteur:Stevenson, RobinSommaire:
Every activist started out as a kid—and in some cases, they were kids when their activism began! But even the world's greatest champions of civil liberties had relatable interests and problems—often in the middle of extraordinary...
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Auteur:Jolly, B. DenhamSommaire:Winner of the 2017 Toronto Book Award. A remarkable memoir about achieving prosperity in the face of relentless prejudice In the Black traces B. Denham Jolly's personal and professional struggle for a place in a country where...
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Auteur:Parks, Rosa, Haskins, JamesSommaire:The black woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why.
- Auteur:Meacham, JonSommaire:
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...
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Auteur:Bausum, Ann.Sommaire:Bausum compares and contrasts the childhoods of John Lewis and James Zwerg in a way that helps young readers understand the segregated experience of our nation's past. The book shows how a common interest in justice created the...
- Auteur:Due, TananariveSommaire:
Two generations of Civil Rights activists tell their stories in alternating chapters, spanning the 60s and 70s. During the course of their seperate and remarkable journeys, the two women find themselves incarcerated and on the front...
- Auteur:Blake, MelissaSommaire:
Well-known disability activist and social media influencer, Melissa Blake, offers a frank, illuminating memoir and a call to action for disabled people and allies. In the summer of 2019, journalist Melissa Blake penned an op-ed for CNN...
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Auteur:Adler, David A.Sommaire:A brief, illustrated, biography of the Baptist minister and civil rights leader whose philosophy and practice of nonviolent civil disobedience helped American blacks win many battles for equal rights.
