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The 1963 Birmingham Children's March
Pub Date: Feb 1, 2012
Age Range: 11 - 15
Triumph and tragedy in 1963 "Bombingham," as children and teens pick up the flagging Civil Rights movement and give it a swift kick in the pants.
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Pub Date: Feb 20, 2010
Age Range: 10 - 18
Brimner focuses on the 1963 bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church and successfully illuminates in chronological order the events, social tensions and political reverberations of that terror-filled time.
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Pub Date: Dec 22, 2009
Age Range: 4 - 9
Civil rights can be a difficult topic, even for adults, so finding simple language to explain the complexity of injustice and oppression to children is challenging.
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Walk Together, Children, and Don’t You Grow Weary
Pub Date: Oct 1, 2009
Age Range: 10 - 18
With this photo-essay on the 54-mile civil-rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Partridge proves once again that nonfiction can be every bit as dramatic as the best fiction.
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Twice Toward Justice
Pub Date: Feb 2, 2009
Age Range: 12 - 18
Claudette Colvin's story will be new to most readers.
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Pub Date: Jan 6, 2009
Age Range: 10 - 14
This compelling debut novel set in 1968 Chicago vividly depicts how one African-American family is torn between two opposiing approaches to the Civil Rights Movement.
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