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This picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir paints a vivid portrait of the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a singular 20th-century American civil and human rights activist who fought for justice against all odds, becoming an unforgettable champion of social change.
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Before she was a famous New York City fashion designer, Ann Lowe was a young Black girl growing up in Alabama, surrounded by flowers and the fabric inside her mother's dress shop. Ann learned sewing skills from her mother and soon was helping her create gowns for the city's wealthy White establishment. Tragedy befalls her when she is just sixteen years old: her mother falls ill and later dies, leaving Ann to compartmentalize her grief and work around...
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"From the National-Book-Award-winning author of All That She Carried, an intimate and revelatory reckoning with the myth and the truth behind an American everyone knows and few really understand. Harriet Tubman is, if surveys are to be trusted, one of the ten most famous Americans ever born, and soon to be the face of the twenty-dollar bill. Yet often she's a figure more out of myth than history, almost a comic-book superhero-the woman who, despite...
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"I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, comrades?" With these words, Elaine Brown proclaimed to the assembled leadership of the Black Panther Party that she was now in charge. It was August 1974. The Panthers had grown from a small Oakland-based cell to a national organization that had mobilized Black communities throughout the country. The party's achievements had won the support...
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In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about ten Black individuals that are arguably the most influential in the history of the United States. What were the accomplishments and contributions made by each of them? This program spotlights Harriet Tubman, Barack Obama, Ruby Bridges, Frederick Douglass, Claudette Colvin, Thurgood Marshall, Madam CJ Walker, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Katherine Johnson and Muhammad Ali.
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In the 2018 high-definition program, learn all about Martin Luther King, Jr. as a pioneering force for racial equality and non-violent protest. What were the significant events of MLK's early years? What was MLK's role in the Montgomery Bus Boycott? What was the Birmingham March? What was the March on Washington? What was MLK's role in the Voting Rights Act? What were the events of MLK's final years and his lasting legacy?
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This inspiring true story of the Pulitzer Prize- and Nobel Prize-winning author shows how she went from being the only Black child in her first-grade classroom — and the only student who could read — to becoming one of the greatest writers in modern history.
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Empowering and educational, this nonfiction picture book about James Weldon Johnson, an NAACP leader who wrote the uplifting poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing," shows how he led thousands of Black people in the Silent Protest Parade for civil rights down New York's Fifth Avenue.
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"An inspiring picture book biography about Glenn Burke, the first Major League Baseball player to come out as gay, and the story of how he created the high five, the world's most recognizable handshake. Playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Glenn Burke could do it all--hit, throw, run, field. He was the heart of the clubhouse who energized his teammates with his enthusiasm and love for the game. It was that energy that led Glenn to invent the high...
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Unprotected: A Memoir is Rae Lewis Thornton's captivating story of what happened to her as a child and how it shaped the trajectory of her life. This story begins on the South Side of Chicago at the age of six with the death of her paternal grandfather-her caregiver and protector - after which, darkness descends over her life like the sky before a storm. Born to drug-addicted, interracial parents in the sixties, Rae's father is dead from a gunshot...