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Daughter of the boycott : carrying on a Montgomery family's civil rights legacy / by Houston, Karen Gray,1951-author.;
"Award-winning broadcast journalist Karen Gray Houston tells the story of the key roles played by her father, Thomas Gray, and her uncle, Fred D. Gray, in the historic Montgomery bus boycott, the action that kick-started the civil rights movement"--
Subjects: Gray, Fred D., 1930-; Gray, Thomas W., 1924-2011.; Montgomery Bus Boycott, Montgomery, Ala., 1955-1956.; Civil rights demonstrations; Segregation in transportation;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 10
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Together : an inspiring response to the "separate-but-equal" Supreme Court decision that divided America / by Nathan, Amy.author(CARDINAL)740577;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-200) and index.Ruled out -- Keith Plessy's long-ago relative -- When a Plessy first met a Ferguson -- Forever linked in history -- Courtroom showdown -- The rise and fall of "separate-but-equal" -- Homer Plessy - vindicated -- Digging into family roots -- It's Plessy and Ferguson now -- Coming together -- Inspiring others -- Epilogue: the ultimate "flip on the script" -- Afterword: others coming together -- Time line -- About the Plessy and Ferguson Foundation -- Family trees -- Historical marker how-to guide -- Historical markers -- Resources -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Index.A century after the Supreme Court's infamous "separate but equal" decision, ancestors of Plessy and Ferguson form an inspiring partnership.
Subjects: Plessy, Homer Adolph.; Ferguson, John H. (Judge); United States. Supreme Court.; African Americans; Racial justice; Segregation in transportation; Segregation;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Right to ride : streetcar boycotts and African American citizenship in the era of Plessy v. Ferguson / by Kelley, Blair Murphy,1973-(CARDINAL)308859;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-245) and index.Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- New York : the Antebellum roots of segregation and dissent -- The color line and the ladies' car : segregation on southern rails before Plessy -- Our people, our problem? : Plessy and the divided New Orleans -- Where are our friends? : crumbling alliances and New Orleans streetcar boycott -- Who's to blame? : Maggie Lena Walker, John Mitchell Jr., and the great class debate -- Negroes everywhere are walking : work, women, and the Richmond streetcar boycott -- Battling Jim Crow's buzzards : betrayal and the Savannah streetcar boycott -- Bend with unabated protest: on the meaning of failure -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index."Focusing on three key cities--New Orleans, Richmond, and Savannah--Kelley explores the community organizations that bound protestors together and the divisions of class, gender, and ambition that sometimes drove them apart. The book forces a reassessment of the timelines of the black freedom struggle, revealing that a period once dismissed as the age of accommodation should in fact be characterized as part of a history of protest and resistance."--P. [4] of cover.
Subjects: African Americans; Civil rights movements; Segregation in transportation; Boycotts;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Together : an inspiring response to the "separate-but-equal" Supreme Court decision that divided America / by Nathan, Amy,author.(CARDINAL)740577;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-191) and index."Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson were both born in New Orleans in 1957. Sixty-five years earlier, in 1892, a member of each of their families met in a Louisiana courtroom when Judge John Howard Ferguson found Homer Plessy guilty of breaking the law by sitting in a train car for white passengers. The case of Plessy v. Ferguson went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that "separate-but-equal" was constitutional, sparking decades of unjust laws and discriminatory attitudes. In Together, AmyNathan threads the personal stories of Keith Plessy and Phoebe Ferguson into the larger history of the Plessy v. Ferguson case, race relations, and civil rights movements in New Orleans and throughout the U.S. She tells the inspiring tale of how Keith and Phoebe came together to change the ending of the story that links their families in history. It's "a flip on the script," said Keith" --
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Young adult literature.; Ferguson, John Howard, 1838-1915.; Plessy, Homer Adolph.; United States. Supreme Court.; African Americans; Racial justice; Segregation in transportation; Segregation;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Breach of peace : portraits of the 1961 Mississippi freedom riders / by Etheridge, Eric.(CARDINAL)733546; Wilkins, Roger W.,1932-2017.(CARDINAL)163543; McWhorter, Diane.(CARDINAL)265073;
Features mug shots and personal details for more than eighty people who were arrested and convicted for challenging pre-civil rights Mississippi's segregation laws, in a volume that includes interviews with former Freedom Riders.
Subjects: Freedom Rides, 1961.; African American civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Segregation in transportation; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Rosa Parks [large print] / by Brinkley, Douglas.(CARDINAL)340947;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Large print books.; Biographies.; Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.; African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Segregation in transportation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Rosa Parks / by Brinkley, Douglas.(CARDINAL)340947;
Includes bibliographical references.
Subjects: Biographies.; Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.; African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Segregation in transportation;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 7
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Rosa Parks / by Brinkley, Douglas.(CARDINAL)340947;
Includes bibliographical references.Rosa Parks, an African American seamstress in 1955 Alabama, had no idea she was changing history when, work-weary, she refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus. Today, she is immortalized for the defiance that sent her to jail and triggered a bus boycott that catapulted Martin Luther King, Jr., into the national spotlight. Who was she, before and after her historic act, and how did that act sound the death knell for Jim Crow?
Subjects: Biographies.; Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.; African American women civil rights workers; African Americans; Civil rights workers; Segregation in transportation;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 11
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Rosa Parks : a biography / by Hanson, Joyce Ann.(CARDINAL)537270;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-182) and index.Timeline : events in the life of Rosa Parks -- The journey begins -- Coming of age in Montgomery -- Seeking equality -- Growing activism -- Foundations of the boycott -- The Montgomery bus boycott -- Life in Detroit -- Continuing activism -- After the civil rights movement.This book captures the story of this remarkable woman like no other biography of her before it. It examines the entire scope of Rosa Parks's life, from her birth in 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama to her 1943 enrollment in the Montgomery NAACP to the dramatic events of the 1960s, and her continuing work up to her death in 2005. Each chapter provides an exploration of a period in Parks's life, portraying the people, places, and events that shaped and were shaped by her. Readers will see in Parks, not an inadvertent tripwire of history, but a woman whose lifelong struggle against racism led her inexorably to a moment where she took a courageous stand by sitting down and not moving.
Subjects: Biographies.; Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005.; African American women civil rights workers; African Americans; Civil rights workers; Segregation in transportation;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / by Theoharis, Jeanne,author.(CARDINAL)275121;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-299) and index.The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement Presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks as the quiet seamstress who, with a single act, birthed the modern civil rights movement, Theoharis provides a revealing window into Parks's politics and years of activism. She shows readers how this civil rights movement radical sought-for more than a half a century-to expose and eradicate the American racial-caste system in jobs, schools, public services, and criminal justice"- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Biographies.; Parks, Rosa, 1913-2005; African American women civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Segregation in transportation;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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