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1083) Un verano loco
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"En 1968, uno de los años más tumultuosos de la historia estaounidense reciente, tres niñas viajan a Oakland, California, en busca de la madre que las abandonó. Un verano loco es una historia inolvidable, divertida y conmovedora de Rita Williams-Garcia, distinguida autora de libros infantiles y juveniles." --
Eleven-year-old Delphine is like a mother to her two younger sisters, Vonetta and Fern. She's had to be, ever since their mother, Cecile,...
1084) Freedom summer
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Freedom Summer of 1964 focused national attention on Mississippi when three civil rights workers (two white and one black) were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan on June 21, 1964, leading eventually to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
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"The three decades after the end of World War II saw the rise and fall of a particular version of liberalism in which the state committed itself to promoting a modest form of economic egalitarianism while simultaneously embracing ethnic, racial, and religious pluralism. But by the mid-1970s, postwar liberalism was in a shambles: while its commitment to pluralism remained, its economic policies had been abandoned, and the Democratic Party, its primary...
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"The Young Lords was a multi-ethnic, though primarily Nuyorican, liberation organization that formed in El Barrio (Spanish Harlem) in July of 1969. Responding to oppressive approaches to the health, educational, and political needs of the Puerto Rican community, the movement's revolutionary activism included organized protests and sit-ins targeting such concerns as trash pickups and lead paint hazards. The Young Lords advanced a thirteen-point political...
1092) Crusaders in the courts: how a dedicated band of lawyers fought for the civil rights revolution
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1093) If your back's not bent: the role of the Citizenship Education Program in the civil rights movement
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"Revolutionary Feminists tells the story of the radical women's liberation movement in Seattle during the 1960s and 1970s from the perspective of one of its founding members, Barbara Winslow. Drawing on her collection of letters, pamphlets, and photographs as well as newspapers accounts, autobiographies, and interviews, she emphasizes the vital role that Black women played in the women's liberation movement to create meaningful intersectional coalitions...
1097) Coretta Scott King
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A biography of the wife of Martin Luther King.
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"Even at the height of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, when the clarion call for equality and justice echoed around the country, few volunteers ventured into Clarke County, Mississippi. Fewer still remained. Located just south of Neshoba County, where three civil rights workers had been murdered during 1964's Freedom Summer, Clarke lay squarely in what many considered Mississippi's, and thus America's, meanest corner. Local African Americans...
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The civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements were the two greatest protests of twentieth-century America. The dramatic escalation of U.S. involvement in Vietnam in 1965 took precedence over civil rights legislation, which had dominated White House and congressional attention during the first half of the decade. The two issues became intertwined on January 6, 1966, when the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) became the first civil...
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