The land is all-important to the Logan family. But it takes awhile for Cassie and her three brothers to understand just how lucky they are to have it. They must learn the hard way that having a place they can call their own in rural Mississippi permits the Logans the luxuries of pride and courage that their poor black sharecropper neighbor can't afford.
Having land gives the Logan children an emotional foundation as they begin to notice the difference between how white children and black children are treated in the Jim Crow South of the Great Depression. Like how textbooks are only issued to black children — labeled "nigra" in the book's inside cover — after they've been thoroughly used by white children. And it takes injustices such as these, and a turbulent year of intense racial prejudice, of night riders and burnings, to show Cassie just how important owning their own land is.
Winner of the 1977 Newbery Medal and nominated for the National Book Award, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry is the story of Cassie Logan, an independent girl growing up relatively protected in a loving family, culled from author Mildred Taylor's own family's life.
It not only stands as an important addition to the cumulative record of the African-American experience, but crafted with astonishing verisimilitude, it stands as well as an important contribution to young adult literature, as well. The story continues in the sequel, Let the Circle Be Unbroken.
In all Mildred D. Taylor's unforgettable novels, she recounts "not only the joy of growing up in a large and supportive family, but my own feelings of being faced with segregation and bigotry." Twenty-five years after it was first published, this special anniversary edition of the classic strikes as deep and powerful a note as ever.
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Amid the Great Depression, the Logan family struggles to protect their Mississippi farm and begins to feel the pressures of racial unrest when a friend is unjustly convicted of a crime by a white jury.
Mildred D. Taylor's classic teen fiction, Let the Circle Be Unbroken, is the 1981 sequel to Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry.
T.J.'s punishment is approaching, Stacey runs away to find work, and the Logan children's cousin, Suzella Rankin, tries to pass herself off as a white person, but fails which leads to embarrassing consequences. It won the Coretta Scott King Author Award in 1982.
Mildred D. Taylor was born in Mississippi and grew up in Ohio. She worked in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps before enrolling at the School of Journalism at the University of Colorado, where she helped develop a Black Studies program.
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In Glory Be, a book by Augusta Scattergood for readers in grades five to seven, changes and difficult choices abound. It's an incisive portrait of a girl trying to make sense of the tumultuous era of the Civil Rights Movement.
It's the summer of 1964 in a small Mississippi town, and Glory, who's about to turn 12, wishes she could turn back the clock a year.
Glory's sister Jesslyn is entering high school and no longer has any time, and things have suddenly gotten awkward with Glory's best friend, Frankie. Plus, a new girl from the North has arrived, and everyone is riled up about what to do about the town's segregated pool.
Whether she wants to or not, Glory has to make some big decisions.
Former librarian and children's book reviewer Augusta Scattergood has devoted her life and career to getting books into the hands of young readers. Her reviews and articles have appeared in The Christian Science Monitor, Delta Magazine, the St. Petersburg Times and other publications. Additionally, Augusta is an avid blogger (http://ascattergood.blogspot.com). She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida and Madison, New Jersey.
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father. A Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award winner for ages nine to 11.
It's 1936, in Flint, Michigan. Ten-year-old Bud may be a motherless boy on the run, but he's on a mission. His momma never told him who his father was, but she left a clue: posters of Herman E. Calloway and his famous band, the Dusky Devastators of the Depression!
Bud's got an idea that those posters will lead to his father in Grand Rapids. Once he decides to hit the road and find this mystery man, nothing can stop him.
Bud, Not Buddy is full of laugh-out-loud humor and wonderful characters, hitting the high notes of jazz and sounding the deeper tones of the Great Depression.
Christopher Paul Curtis was born and reared in Flint, Michigan. After high school graduation, he worked on the assembly line of the Fisher Body Plant/Flint Plant No. 1 and graduated from the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. His first book, The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1963, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor book citation in 1996, and Bud, Not Buddy received the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award in 2000.
His most recent book Elijah of Buxton won a Newbery Honor, the Coretta Scott King Author Award, and the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2008. "This novel came to me in a way that was far different than any other," states Curtis. "From the word 'go' Elijah and I became close friends. When I'd go to the library to write, it was as if he were anxiously waiting for me, watiing to tell about his life, his worries, his adventues."
Christopher Paul Curtis lives with his wife and two children in Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
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An introduction to the achievements and lasting influence of the heroic civil rights leader, I Am Martin Luther King, Jr. covers topics ranging from King's organization of the Montgomery Bus Boycott to his famed "I Have a Dream" speech for readers ages 7 to 10 years old.
A brand-new biography series featuring some of the most important people from history and today.
I helped organize the Montgomery Bus Boycott. I am only 34 when I give the "I Have a Dream" speech. I am Martin Luther King Jr.
Learn all about this heroic man, whose accomplishments are truly inspiring, in the continuation of Scholastic's latest biography series by Grace Norwich: I Am. This book features illustrations throughout, a timeline, an introduction to the people you'll meet in the book, maps, sidebars, and a top ten list of important things to know about Martin Luther King Jr.
Also try Scholastic and Grace Norwich's I Am Harriet Tubman.
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Born into a close knit family in Chicago, Michelle Robinson was a star student who graduated from Princeton and Harvard Law. Then in 1992, she married another promising young lawyer and the rest, as they say, is history.
It is undeniable that President Barack Obama has changed the United States, but so has Michelle Obama, the self proclaimed "Mom in Chief."
This compelling, easy-to-read biography is illustrated by New Yorker artist John O'Brien and introduces readers ages 8 to 12 to the First Lady of the United States.
Megan Stine is the author of Who is Michelle Obama?. She has written several young biographies, including Who Was Sally Ride?
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The only biography of Thurgood Marshall endorsed by his immediate family, Young Thurgood covers his life from his upbringing to his landmark work with the NAACP and his appointment as the first African-American justice of the Supreme Court.
This exhaustively researched and engagingly written work is perfect for anyone interested in law, civil rights, American history and biography.
Thurgood Marshall was the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century. He transformed the nation's legal landscape by challenging the racial segregation that had relegated millions to second-class citizenship. He won 29 of 33 cases before the United States Supreme Court, was a federal appeals court judge, served as the US solicitor general and sat on the Supreme Court for 24 years.
Marshall is best known for achievements after he relocated to New York in 1936 to work for the NAACP, but Marshall's personality, attitudes, priorities and work habits had crystallized during earlier years in Maryland.
Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice is the first close examination of the formative period in Marshall's life. As author and professor Larry S. Gibson shows, Thurgood Marshall was a fascinating man of contrasts. He fought for racial justice without becoming a racist. Simultaneously idealistic and pragmatic, Marshall was a passionate advocate, yet he maintained friendly relationships with his opponents.
Young Thurgood reveals how Marshall's distinctive traits were molded by events, people and circumstances early in his life. Gibson presents fresh information about Marshall's family, youth and education. He describes Marshall's key mentors, the special impact of his high school and college competitive debating, his struggles to establish a law practice during the Great Depression and his first civil rights cases.
The author sheds new light on the NAACP and its first lawsuits in the campaign that led to the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education school desegregation decision. He also corrects some of the often-repeated stories about Marshall that are inaccurate.
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Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom, draws on the South African leader's personal archive of private papers, speeches, correspondence and audio recordings to present a collection of inspirational and historically significant quotations spanning more than 60 years.
The authorized record of Nelson Mandela's most inspiring and historically important quotations, Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom is the definitive book of quotations from one of the great leaders of our time.
This collection — gathered from privileged access to Mandela's vast personal archive of private papers, speeches, correspondence and audio recordings — features more than three hundred quotations and includes his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech.
These inspirational quotations, organized into four sections — Struggle, Victory, Wisdom and Future — are both universal and deeply personal. We see Mandela's sense of humor, his loneliness and despair, his thoughts on fatherhood and the reluctant leader who had no choice but to become the man history demanded.
"A good pen can also remind us of the happiest moments in our lives, bring noble ideas into our dens, our blood and our souls. It can turn tragedy into hope and victory," Nelson Mandela, from a letter to Zindzi Mandela, written on Robben Island, February 10, 1980
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A new edition of the first novel by Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye relates the story of Pecola Breedlove, an 11-year-old black girl growing up in an America that values blue-eyed blondes, and the tragedy that results because of her longing to be accepted.
Pecola Breedlove prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly hair and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in.
Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife.
A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison's virtuosic The Bluest Eye asks powerful questions about race, class and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing.
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf is a theatrical celebration, in verse and prose, of being female and black. It incorporates the triumphs, joys, griefs and losses of black women in America.
From its inception in California in 1974 to its highly acclaimed critical success at Joseph Papp's Public Theater and on Broadway, the Obie Award–winning For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf: A Choreopoem has excited, inspired and transformed audiences all over the country.
Passionate and fearless, author Ntozake Shange's words reveal what it meant to be of color and female in the twentieth century. First published in 1975, when it was praised by The New Yorker for "encompassing . . . every feeling and experience a woman has ever had," For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf will be read and performed for generations to come.
This is a groundbreaking, dramatic prose poem written in vivid and powerful language that resonates with unusual beauty in its fierce message to the world.
"Extraordinary and wonderful . . . Ntozake Shange writes with such exquisite care and beauty that anyone can relate to her message." -The New York Times
"If there are shoulders modern African-American women's literature stands upon they belong to Ntozake Shange, who revolutionized theater and literature with her iconic work For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf in the 1970s. Any of us writing today are inheritors of her genius." —Sapphire, author of Push
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Banned in several school districts mostly for sexual and racial themes, The Color Purple is a novel about Celie, a poor black woman who surmounts rape and abuse to find her true self. Still retains its power today.
The Color Purple is a 1982 epistolary novel by American author Alice Walker which won the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award for Fiction. It was later adapted into a film and musical of the same name.
Taking place mostly in rural Georgia, the story focuses on the life of women of color in the southern United States in the 1930s, addressing numerous issues including their exceedingly low position in American social culture.
Celie, the protagonist and narrator, is a poor, barely educated, 14-year-old black girl living in the American South. She writes letters to God because the man she believes to be her father, Alphonso, beats and rapes her. Alphonso has already impregnated Celie once, a pregnancy that resulted in the birth of a girl. Alphonso takes the girl away shortly after her birth. Celie has a second child, a boy, whom Alphonso also abducts. Celie's ailing mother dies after cursing Celie on her deathbed.
The novel has been the frequent target of censors and appears on the American Library Association list of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2000-2009 at number 17 because of the sometimes explicit content, particularly in terms of violence.
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A new graphic novel, March by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell is a first-hand account of Lewis's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement.
Top Shelf Productions is proud to present the first volume of March, a graphic novel trilogy co-authored by Congressman John Lewis (GA-5) and Andrew Aydin, with art by Nate Powell (a New York Times bestseller, Eisner Award winner, and finalist for the LA Times Book Prize).
A 2014 Coretta Scott King Author Honor book, March is a vivid, first-hand account of John Lewis' lifelong struggle for civil and human rights (including his key roles in the historic 1963 March on Washington and the 1965 Selma-Montgomery March), meditating in the modern age on the distance traveled since the days of Jim Crow and segregation.
In March: Book One, a true American icon teams up with one of America's most acclaimed graphic novelists. Together, they bring to life one of our nation's most historic moments, a period both shameful and inspiring, and a movement whose echoes will be heard for generations.
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When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award and hailed as a watershed in American drama.
Not only was it a pioneering work by an African-American playwright, Lorraine Hansberry's play was also a radically new representation of black life: one that was resolutely authentic, fiercely unsentimental and unflinching in its vision of what happens to people whose dreams are constantly deferred.
Hansberry anticipated issues that range from generational clashes to the civil rights and women's movements. She also posed essential questions about identity, justice, and moral responsibility.
The result is a work that captivated audiences from every walk of life and has become a classic of American letters.
"The play that changed American theater forever... A seething interplay of past and present, of wisdom and passion." - The New York Times Book Review
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This 50th anniversary tribute to the Civil Rights leader and the inspirational speech he delivered in August of 1963 combines magnificent artwork by the Caldecott Honor-winning artist of Henry's Freedom Box with the actual text from one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in our nation's history. Includes a CD of Martin Luther King, Jr. giving his famous speech.
From Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s daughter, Dr. Bernice A. King: "My father's dream continues to live on from generation to generation, and this beautiful and powerful illustrated edition of his world-changing "I Have a Dream" speech brings his inspiring message of freedom, equality, and peace to the youngest among us—those who will one day carry his dream forward for everyone."
On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, Martin Luther King gave one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in our nation's history. His words, paired with Caldecott Honor winner Kadir Nelson's magificent paintings, make I Have a Dream: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. a picture book certain to be treasured by children and adults alike.
The themes of equality and freedom for all are not only relevant today, 50 years later, but also provide young readers with an important introduction to our nation's past.
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Edited by Retha Powers, this approachable title provides an overview of black history through 5,000 quotes from authors, artists, scientists, philosophers and politicians who lived through different eras from ancient Egypt to American slavery, up through the Civil Rights Era and Apartheid.
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations is a comprehensive, all-new collection bringing together the most thoughtful, inspiring, and wisest voices from the Black diaspora across history.
Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations paints a rich canvas of black history through time. Five thousand quotes are culled from the time of Ancient Egypt through American slavery, Jim Crow, the Civil Rights Era, Apartheid, to the present day.
With a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and passages from authors, artists, scientists, philosophers, theologians, activists, politicians and many others, Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations will appeal not only to quote aficionados and researchers, but also to history buffs.
Aesop's Fables and the Holy Bible are in the same company as Nelson Mandela and President Obama; Maya Angelou and Toni Morrison; Bob Marley and Jay-Z.
A wonderful reference tool and gift, Bartlett's Familiar Black Quotations is sure to follow in the footsteps of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, becoming a beloved authority.
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Through My Eyes provides the first-hand factual account of the six-year-old student who made history by having been one of the first black children to attend an all-white, segregated school in the 1960s.
Written for readers ages 8 to 12, Publisher's Weekly had this to say about Ruby Bridges' Jane Addams Children's Book Award-winning Through My Eyes:
"With Robert Coles's 1995 picture book, The Story of Ruby Bridges, and a Disney television movie, readers may feel they already know all about Bridges, who in 1960 was the first black child to attend a New Orleans public elementary school. But the account she gives here is freshly riveting. With heartbreaking understatement, she gives voice to her six-year-old self.
"Escorted on her first day by U.S. marshals, young Ruby was met by throngs of virulent protesters ('I thought maybe it was Mardi Gras... Mardi Gras was always noisy,' she remembers). Her prose stays unnervingly true to the perspective of a child: 'The policeman at the door and the crowd behind us made me think this was an important place. It must be college, I thought to myself.'
"Inside, conditions were just as strange, if not as threatening. Ruby was kept in her own classroom, receiving one-on-one instruction from teacher Barbara Henry, a recent transplant from Boston. Sidebars containing statements from Henry and Bridges's mother, or excerpts from newspaper accounts and John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, provide information and perspectives unavailable to Bridges as a child.
As the year went on, Henry accidentally discovered the presence of other first graders, and she had to force the principal to send them into her classroom for part of the day (the principal refused to make the other white teachers educate a black child). Ironically, it was only when one of these children refused to play with Ruby ('My mama said not to because you're a nigger') that Ruby realized that 'everything had happened because I was black... It was all about the color of my skin.'
Sepia-toned period photographs join the sidebars in rounding out Bridges' account. But Bridges' words, recalling a child's innocence and trust, are more vivid than even the best of the photos. Like poetry or prayer, they melt the heart."
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Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary leaders.
As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John Carlin had unique access to Mandela during the post-apartheid years when Mandela faced his most daunting obstacles and achieved his greatest triumphs. Carlin witnessed history as Mandela was released from prison after twenty-seven years and ultimately ascended to the presidency of his strife-torn country.
Drawing on exclusive conversations with Mandela and countless interviews with people who were close to him, Carlin has crafted an account of a man who was neither saint nor superman. Mandela's seismic political victories were won at the cost of much personal unhappiness and disappointment.
Knowing Mandela: A Personal Portrait offers an intimate understanding of one of the most towering and remarkable figures of our age.
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Illustrated and aimed at readers ages 4 through 8, author Kadir Nelson presents a biography of the former South African president best known for his political activism and fight to end apartheid.
Booklist's Hazel Rochman says, "Starting with the full-page cover portrait, this glowing picture-book biography offers a celebratory introduction to Nelson Mandela's life for young readers.
"Clear, free verse and handsome, unframed paintings follow the iconic leader from his tribal childhood and his work as a young city lawyer through his political leadership against the brutality of apartheid, his long imprisonment and then the triumph of his election as president of his country.
"The story doesn't mention conflicts both political (the splits in the anti-apartheid movement) and personal (the bitter rift with his daughters), as well as the continuing inequality South Africans face.
"Still, words and images bring close the cruel apartheid segregation in daily life, including one double-page spread of Cape Town's glorious beaches with the sign that reads White Area. Then there is the view of prisoners on Robben Island hammering rocks into dust.
"In contrast, the final pages of Nelson Mandela show today's nonsegregated beaches and people of all races standing together free at last. A long final note fills in more.
With an internationally beloved leader as its subject and a multi-award-winning artist as its creator, this title is sure to be on every must-purchase list."
Kadir Nelson's award-winning books include Ellington Was Not a Street by Ntozake Shange, which won the Coretta Scott King Award and was an ALA Notable Children's Book; and Just the Two of Us by Will Smith, which received an NAACP Image Award. Mr. Nelson lives in San Diego, California, with his wife and two daughters.
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Author Henry Louis Gates, Jr., gives us a sumptuously illustrated, landmark book tracing African-American history from the arrival of the conquistadors to the election of Barack Obama.
Informed by the latest, sometimes provocative scholarship, and including more than eight hundred images - ancient maps, art, documents, photographs, cartoons, posters - Life Upon These Shores: Looking at African American History, 1513-2008 focuses on defining events, debates and controversies, as well as the achievements of people famous and obscure.
Gates takes us from the sixteenth century through the ordeal of slavery, from the Civil War and Reconstruction through the Jim Crow era and the Great Migration; from the civil rights and black nationalist movements through the age of hip-hop on to the Joshua generation.
By documenting and illuminating the sheer diversity of African American involvement in American history, society, politics, and culture, Gates bracingly disabuses us of the presumption of a single "Black Experience."
Life Upon These Shores is a book of major importance, a breathtaking tour de force of the historical imagination.
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Achievement engenders pride, and the most significant accomplishments involving people, places, and events in black history are gathered in Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events.
Wayne R. Cherry, Jr. of Houston's First Baptist Academy Lib. sums it up: "[Author Jessie] Carney [Smith] presents major accomplishments ranging from firsts in cartooning and jazz to sporting firsts for jockeys in the Kentucky Derby.
"Brief profiles are presented chronologically and cover major figures such as Michael Jackson and Jackie Robinson as well as lesser-known figures such as Moses Fleetwood Walker, the first black member of a varsity collegiate baseball club.
"Entries, several of which offer photos of their subjects, range in length from a few sentences to a full paragraph and each includes information on primary sources of data. The well-researched sketches provide a great deal of information in an economical space. Of particular note is the section on military firsts, which includes those who have served in wars from the American Revolution through the present, among them James T. Whitehead, the first black pilot of a U-2 spy plane, and Hazel Winifred Johnson, the first black woman to achieve the rank of general in the Army.
"This is an excellent resource for starting research on black history, but its sheer volume may be overwhelming to casual researchers. The lesser-known figures, however, make the title worth digging into."
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With a foreword by President Barack Obama, Nelson Mandela's Conversations With Myself fraws on the author's personal archive of never-before-seen papers to offer unique access to the private world of the incomparable world leader, who worked from prison to end apartheid in South Africa.
"[Nelson Mandela] has done so much to change his country, and the world, that it is hard to imagine the history of the last several decades without him." - from the foreword by President Barack Obama
Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. After a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships and victories, he opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable autobiography.
From letters written in the darkest hours of his 27 years of imprisonment to the draft of an unfinished sequel to Long Walk to Freedom, Conversations With Myself gives readers access to the private man behind the public figure.
Here he is making notes and even doodling during meetings, or transcribing troubled dreams on the desk calendar in his prison cell on Robben Island; writing journals while on the run during the anti-apartheid struggle in the early 1960s, and conversing with friends in almost 70 hours of recorded conversations. Here he is neither icon nor saint.
An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Conversations With Myself is a rare chance to spend time with Nelson Mandela the man, in his own voice: direct, clear, private.
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A succinct and accessible chronicle of key events in the Civil Rights Movement by the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of the trilogy that includes Parting the Waters, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement traces how the Movement evolved from a bus strike to a political and social revolution.
In Taylor Branch's latest book, Branch has identified eighteen essential moments from the Civil Rights Movement, and providing selections from his trilogy, has placed each moment in historical context with a newly written introduction.
The captivating result is a slender but comprehensive view of America in the turbulent, transformative 1960s, by our nation's foremost authoritative voice on the subject.
Branch looks back on his own work with fresh insight about what lessons and challenges remain most salient today. This compact book conveys the full sweep of an era, showing how a small bus boycott evolved into the signature freedom movement of the 20th century, generating worldwide inspiration and sustained progress toward equal citizenship in areas far beyond racial discrimination.
The King Years is meant for general readers, but Branch designed it also as a teaching tool for the digital age. Starting in January 2013, from his hometown, Branch made this book the centerpiece for an experimental online seminar offered by the University of Baltimore. New, interactive technology lent itself to an unmatched course on democratic leadership for a worldwide audience.
With this unique, handy addition to the literature on civil rights, readers can equip themselves for an uncertain future by absorbing hope from our resilient past.
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Now a major motion picture, the bestselling memoir of Nelson Mandela, begun during the South African president's years in prison, traces the Nobel Prize-winner's historic life from his traditional tribal childhood to his triumphant rise to power.
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country.
Since Nelson Mandela's triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.
Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela is the story of his life - from the early development of his political consciousness to his eventful quarter-century behind bars to his momentous victory in South Africa's first-ever multiracial elections - and an epic account of struggle, setback, renewed hope and ultimate triumph.
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As the Baltimore Ravens made their improbable march to victory in Super Bowl XLVII, they turned to their senior advisor of player development, O.J. Brigance, for inspiration each and every Sunday.
Following a stellar 12-year career as a linebacker, including a Super Bowl win with Baltimore in 2000, O.J. Juice Brigance joined the Baltimore Ravens front office. Then, in 2007, O.J. was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis also known as Lou Gehrig's disease and told he had only three to five years to live. As a player, he'd battled hundreds of injuries and setbacks. None of them prepared him to face ALS.
With faith and determination in his heart and his wife, Chanda, praying by his side, O.J. fought back against the debilitating disease, even as ALS robbed him of the ability to walk and speak. He kept working, smiling and touching his players lives all the way through their remarkable Super Bowl run more than five years after his diagnosis.
Now, O.J. shares his incredible story, offering lessons in resilience and reflecting on the championship team that inspired him in turn. Along with his own journey, O.J. recounts the struggles and successes of Baltimore Ravens players, including Ray Lewis, Joe Flacco and Torrey Smith, as well as the strength of head coach John Harbaugh. Having watched their season from the best seat in the house, O.J. highlights their perseverance, confidence and leadership, and the best that sports can bring out in people.
Full of profound revelations and never-before-told anecdotes, Strength of a Champion: Finding Faith and Fortitude Through Adversity, with a foreword by Baltimore Ravens Ring of Honor member Ray Lewis, is a celebration of the human spirit from a man who left everything on the field. O.J. Brigance never asked to be a hero. That's what makes his story so courageous.
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Edited by one James M. Washington, this lengthy tome collects civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s writings on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism and more.
"We've got some difficult days ahead," civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., told a crowd gathered at Memphis's Clayborn Temple on April 3, 1968. "But it really doesn't matter to me now because I've been to the mountaintop... And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."
These prophetic words, uttered the day before his assassination, challenged those he left behind to see that his "promised land" of racial equality became a reality; a reality to which King devoted the last 12 years of his life.
These words and other are commemorated here in the only major one-volume collection of this seminal twentieth-century American prophet's writings, speeches, interviews and autobiographical reflections.
A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr. contains Martin Luther King, Jr.'s essential thoughts on nonviolence, social policy, integration, black nationalism, the ethics of love and hope, and more.
Editor James M. Washington was, for more than 20 years, a professor of church history at Union Theoloical Seminary in New York City and was considered a leading authority on Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Thirteen-year-old Maleeka, uncomfortable because her skin is extremely dark, meets a new teacher with a birthmark on her face and makes some discoveries about how to love who she is and what she looks like.
Maleeka suffers every day from the taunts of the other kids in her class. If they're not getting at her about her homemade clothes or her good grades, it's about her dark, black skin.
When a new teacher, whose face is blotched with a startling white patch, starts at their school, Maleeka can see there is bound to be trouble for her too. But the new teacher's attitude surprises Maleeka. Miss Saunders loves the skin she's in. Can Maleeka learn to do the same?
The Skin I'm In is an encouraging novel from author Sharon G. Flake and is a Corretta Scott King Book Award-winning title.
The Coretta Scott King Book Awards are given annually to outstanding African-American authors and illustrators of books for children and young adults that demonstrate an appreciation of African-American culture and universal human values. The awards commemorate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and honors his wife, Mrs. Coretta Scott King, for her courage and determination to continue the work for peace and world brotherhood.
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Written in the late 1800s, this is the autobiography of the famous abolitionist and statesman who escaped to the north after 21 years of enslavement.
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slacery ever recorded.
Douglass's gripping narrative takes us into the fields, cabins and manors of pre-Civil War plantations in the South and reveals the daily terrors he suffered as a slave.
Written more than a century and a half ago by an African-American who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister to Haiti and leader of his people, Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave is a timeless classic that still speaks directly to our age. It is a record of savagery and inhumanity that goes far to explain why America still suffers from the great injustices of he past.
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Time magazine editor Richard Stengel, who collaborated with Mandela on his bestselling autobiography, distills Mandela's wisdom into 15 vital life lessons that have the power to deepen lives.
We long for heroes and have too few. Nelson Mandela, who died in 2013 at the age of ninety-five, is the closest thing the world has to a secular saint. He liberated a country from a system of violent prejudice and helped unite oppressor and oppressed in a way that had never been done before.
Now Richard Stengel, the editor of Time magazine, has distilled countless hours of intimate conversation with Mandela into fifteen essential life lessons. For nearly three years, including the critical period when Mandela moved South Africa toward the first democratic elections in its history, Stengel collaborated with Mandela on his autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, and traveled with him everywhere. Eating with him, watching him campaign, hearing him think out loud, Stengel came to know all the different sides of this complex man and became a cherished friend and colleague.
In Mandela's Way, Stengel recounts the moments in which "the grandfather of South Africa" was tested and shares the wisdom he learned: why courage is more than the absence of fear, why we should keep our rivals close, why the answer is not always either/or but often "both," how important it is for each of us to find something away from the world that gives us pleasure and satisfaction - our own garden. Woven into these life lessons are remarkable stories - of Mandela's childhood as the protégé of a tribal king, of his early days as a freedom fighter, of the 27-year imprisonment that could not break him, and of his fulfilling remarriage at the age of 80.
This uplifting book captures the spirit of this extraordinary man—warrior, martyr, husband, statesman, and moral leader—and spurs us to look within ourselves, reconsider the things we take for granted, and contemplate the legacy we’ll leave behind.
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