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Books For Children
John Lewis in the lead : a story of the civil rights movement by
Call Number: Juv E840.8.L43 H37 2006Sweet land of liberty by
Call Number: Juv E185.61 .H83 2007
American History In Video
Watch actual footage, newsreels and documentaries on the Civil Rights movement through the American History in Video database. Search by era (try Postwar Era (1945-1960) and The Sixties (1960-1974)) or by topic (try African-Americans, Civil Rights or Race Relations).
Civil Rights Reference Books
Freedom Facts and Firsts: 400 Years of the African American Civil Rights ExperienceCall Number: E-BOOK (Gale Virtual Reference)Visible Ink Press, 2009.
The Boston Busing Controversy
Far from home: a documentary by
FAR FROM HOME spotlights Kandice, an African-American teenager participating in a Boston school integration program.
Call Number: MediaVid FAR
The Other Boston Busing Story: What's Won and Lost Across the Boundary Line by
Sixty-five METCO graduates vividly recall their own stories in this revealing book. Susan E. Eaton interviewed program participants who are now adults, asking them to assess the benefits and hardships of crossing racial and class lines on their way to school.
Call Number: LC214.523.B67 E38 2001
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Boston against busing : race, class, and ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970s by Perhaps the most spectacular reaction to court-ordered busing in the 1970s occurred in Boston, where there was intense and protracted protest. Racial prejudice, class resentment, ethnic rivalries, and the defense of neighborhood turf all played powerful roles in the protest.
Call Number: LC214.523.B67 F67 1991
Rosa Parks Papers
Rosa Parks’ archive of letters, writings, personal notes and photographs has been fully digitized by the Library of Congress and is now available online.
Featured Books
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by
Beacon Press, 2013 - F334.M753 P3883 2013b
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Freedom Summer: The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy by Call Number: E185.93.M6 W285 2010New York: Viking, 2010.
Infectious Fear: Politics, Disease, and the Health Effects of Segregation by University of North Carolina Press, 2009 - EBOOK
We Ain't What we Ought to be: The Black Freedom Struggle from Emancipation to Obama by Call Number: E185 .T797 2010Harvard University Press, 2010.
Legacy Museum
- The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass IncarcerationThe Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration opened to the public on April 26, 2018, in Montgomery, Alabama. The 11,000-square-foot museum is built on the site of a former warehouse where enslaved black people were imprisoned, and is located midway between an historic slave market and the main river dock and train station where tens of thousands of enslaved people were trafficked during the height of the domestic slave trade
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice
- The National Memorial for Peace and JusticeThe National Memorial for Peace and Justice, which opened to the public on April 26, 2018, is the nation’s first memorial dedicated to the legacy of enslaved black people, people terrorized by lynching, African Americans humiliated by racial segregation and Jim Crow, and people of color burdened with contemporary presumptions of guilt and police violence.