Book — Fiction. By Christopher Paul Curtis. 2018. 256 pages.
A novel for young adults that that shows how slavery was state-sanctioned terrorism and the impact of the Fugitive Slave Law.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Jeanne Theoharis. 2018. 282 pages.
A non-academic, popular historiography that challenges educators to revamp curriculum to include a fuller, more critical history of the Civil Rights era.
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In response to the promotion of voter registration, a KKK-like group massacred hundreds of people, most of whom were African American.
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In an effort to stop the implementation of Brown v. Board through terrorism, 16-yr-old John Earl Reese was killed in Mayflower, Texas.
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A. Philip Randolph, Jackie Robinson, Coretta Scott King, Harry Belafonte, Bayard Rustin, and more led a Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C.
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Two hate crime shootings in one week, one of African American shoppers in Kentucky and the other of Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh.
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Luther Jackson was murdered by Philadelphia, Mississippi policeman Lawrence Rainey.
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People who had escaped from slavery and were following the Union Army, were blocked from crossing the Ebenezer Creek, leading to their death.
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African Americans voters were threatened after the Danville Riot, leading to their loss of political power in this majority African American city in Virginia.
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Deadly election “riots” took place in Barbour County, Alabama against African American politicians and voters.
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Sergeant Edgar Caldwell, a Black man, was hanged before a crowd of spectators in the yard of the Calhoun County jail for riding in a white streetcar.
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J. C. Farmer, a 19-year-old African American WWII veteran, was killed by a mob of 20 white men.
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White people attacked and killed many Black citizens who had organized for a Black sheriff to remain in office during the Vicksburg Massacre.
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Nearly 50 African-Americans were killed by white mobs during the Clinton Riot.
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The Georgia Constitutional Convention was held with 33 African Americans and 137 white attendees.
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P. B. S. Pinchback of Louisiana became the second Black governor in the United States.
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Joseph H. Rainey, from South Carolina, was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Secretary of State William H. Seward declared the 13th Amendment to the United States Constitution to have been adopted.
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After a 381-day boycott, a federal ruling declared the Alabama laws requiring segregated buses to be unconstitutional.
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Picture book. By Lesa Cline-Ransome and James E. Ransome. 2017. 32 pages.
An illustrated biography of Harriet Tubman written in verse.
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Book — Non-fiction. By Barbara Ransby. 2018. 240 pages.
"A love letter to the organizers in the Movement for Black Lives, and a tribute to their increasingly expansive vision."
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Abolitionist and suffragist Harriet Tubman, perhaps the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad, engineered her first rescue mission in December 1850.
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Aaron Henry (Mississippi state NAACP president, pharmacist, drugstore owner) and the Coahoma County NAACP organized an effective Christmas shopping boycott in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
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African Americans across the United States, free and enslaved, in the North and South, held watch meetings for the abolition of slavery.
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