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Honoring a Global Legacy of Social Justice Giants
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A Song Flung up to Heaven by Maya AngelouCall Number: PS3551.N464 Z476
Publication Date: 2002
The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
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A Voice That Could Stir an Army by Maegan Parker BrooksCall Number: E185.97.H35 B76 2014
Publication Date: 2014
A Voice That Could Stir an Army is a rhetorical biography that tells the story of Hamer's life by focusing on how she employed symbols-- images, words, and even material objects such as the ballot, food, and clothing--to construct persuasive public personae, to influence audiences, and to effect social change.
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An Easy Burden by Andrew J. YoungCall Number: E840.8.Y64 A3 1996
Publication Date: 1996
The highly regarded statesman and former mayor of Atlanta provides an insider's perspective on the civil rights movement and plots a course for America's future.
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Beauty Shop Politics by Tiffany M. GillCall Number: E185.86 .G494 2010
Publication Date: 2010
With a broad scope that encompasses the role of gossip in salons, ethnic beauty products, and the social meanings of African American hair textures, Gill shows how African American beauty entrepreneurs built and sustained a vibrant culture of activism in beauty salons and schools.
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Black Revolutionary by Gerald HorneCall Number: E185.97.P32 H67
Publication Date: 2013
In this watershed biography, historian Gerald Horne shows how Patterson helped to advance African American equality by fostering and leveraging international support for the movement.
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Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement by Barbara RansbyCall Number: E185.97.B214 R36
Publication Date: 2003
In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
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Force and Freedom by Kellie Carter JacksonCall Number: E441 .J33
Publication Date: 2019
Kellie Carter Jackson provides the first historical analysis exclusively focused on the tactical use of violence among antebellum black activists.
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Black history : a retrospectiveCall Number: DVD NO.4903
Publication Date: 2009
This DVD compilation features a collection of documentaries and programs chronicling the contributions and accomplishments of the most prominent and influential African-Americans throughout the history of the United States.
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Brother outsider : the life of Bayard RustinCall Number: DVD NO.4500
Publication Date: 2008
A documentary examining the life of Bayard Rustin who, although one of the first "freedom riders," an adviser to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and A. Philip Randolph, and an organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, was forced to play a background role in landmark civil rights events because he was homosexual.
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Hands on the Freedom Plow by Martha Prescod Norman Noonan (General Editor)Call Number: E185.96 .H24
Publication Date: 2010
In Hands on the Freedom Plow, fifty-two women--northern and southern, young and old, urban and rural, black, white, and Latina--share their courageous personal stories of working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement.
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In remembrance of MartinCall Number: DVD NO.712
Publication Date: 2005
Personal comments from family members, friends, former classmates, and advisors are chronicled in this moving piece honoring Dr. Martin Luther King.
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Jackie RobinsonCall Number: DVD NO.5384
Publication Date: 2016
The film illuminates Robinson's place as a leader and icon of the civil rights movement whose exemplary life and aspirational message of equality continues to inspire generations of Americans.
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Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson MandelaCall Number: DT1949.M35 A28
Publication Date: 1994
To millions of people around the world, Nelson Mandela stands, as no other living figure does, for the triumph of dignity and hope over despair and hatred, of self-discipline and love over persecution and evil.
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom by Janet Dewart BellCall Number: E185.61 .B375
Publication Date: 2018
Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women's all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, several now in their nineties with decades of untold stories, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices.
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Lost Prophet by John D'EmiliCall Number: E185.97.R93 D46
Publication Date: 2003
Examines the life of Bayard Rustin, the civil rights activist who organized the 1963 March on Washington, detailing his struggles as being openly gay and his campaigns for civil rights.
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Malcolm X: in our own image by Joe WoodCall Number: BP223.Z8 L5763
Publication Date: 1992
A collection of essays by African Americans on Malcolm X includes contributions by fifteen writers, including Amiri Baraka, Cornel West, and Arnold Rampersad.
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Mandela : long walk to freedomCall Number: DVD NO.4514
Publication Date: 2014
Based on South African President Nelson Mandela's autobiography of the same name, it chronicles his early life, coming of age, education and 27 years in prison before becoming President and working to rebuild the country's once segregated society.
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March by John LewisCall Number: E840.8.L43 A3 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Congressman John Lewis (Georgia) is an American icon, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement.
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Maya Angelou, and still I riseCall Number: DVD NO.5577
Publication Date: 2017
Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton.
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My Face Is Black Is True by Mary Frances BerryCall Number: E185.97.H825 B47
Publication Date: 2005
In her groundbreaking new book, My Face Is Black Is True, historian Mary Frances Berry resurrects the forgotten life of Callie House (1861-1928), ex-slave, widowed Nashville washerwoman and mother of five who, seventy years before the civil rights movement, headed a demand for ex-slave reparations.
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Robert Parris Moses by Laura Visser-MaessenCall Number: E185.97.M89 V57
Publication Date: 2016
One of the most influential leaders in the civil rights movement, Robert Parris Moses was essential in making Mississippi a central battleground state in the fight for voting rights.
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The Huey P Newton Reader by David Hilliard (Editor); Donald Weise (Editor)Call Number: E185.97.N48 A28
Publication Date: 2002
The first comprehensive collection of writings by the Black Panther Party founder and revolutionary icon of the black liberation era, The Huey P. Newton Reader combines now-classic texts ranging in topic from the formation of the Black Panthers, African Americans and armed self-defense, Eldridge Cleaver's controversial expulsion from the Party, FBI infiltration of civil rights groups, the Vietnam War, and the burgeoning feminist movement with never-before-published writings from the Black Panther Party archives and Newton's private collection.
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They Can't Kill Us All by Wesley LoweryCall Number: E185.86 .L69
Publication Date: 2016
A deeply reported book that brings alive the quest for justice in the deaths of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray, offering both unparalleled insight into the reality of police violence in America and an intimate, moving portrait of those working to end it.
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W. E. B. Du Bois by David Levering LewisCall Number: E185.97.D73 L48
Publication Date: 1993
In stunning detail, Lewis chronicles the little-known political agenda behind the Harlem Renaissance and Du Bois's relentless fight for equality and justice, including his steadfast refusal to allow whites to interpret the aspirations of black America.
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