Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
"Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within twenty-four hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome...
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
2023 ALA Children's Award Winners and Nominees
2024 FPPL Juneteenth YA Reads
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Teens
Juneteenth Teen 2023
2024 FPPL Juneteenth YA Reads
Celebrating the Freedom to Read: Teens
Juneteenth Teen 2023
Formats
Description
"Interconnected stories present a picture of racial inequality in America, showing systemic discrimination in all areas of society and showing the unbroken line of Black resistance to this inequality"--
Author
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Formats
Description
Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the Freedom Summer murders, traces the events surrounding the KKK lynching of three young civil rights activists who were trying to register African Americans for the vote.
In June of 1964, three idealistic young men (one black and two white) were lynched by the Ku Klux Klan in Mississippi. They were trying to register African Americans to vote as part of the Freedom Summer effort to bring democracy to...
8) Medgar Evers
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A biography on Medgar Evers, the civil rights activist and martyr from Mississippi.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Suggest a purchase. Submit Request