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The shadows of youth : the remarkable journey of the civil rights generation / by Lewis, Andrew B.,1967-(CARDINAL)649354;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-335) and index.Prologue : freedom high -- Qualities of youth. Sure bugs me : the civil rights generation and the failures of the 1950s ; Generation gaps : the civil rights generation and the promise of the 1950s ; The sit-in craze : how the movement got its groove back ; More than a hamburger : from student protesters to civil rights activists ; Highway 61 revisited : inroads in the Deep South ; The dreams that break your heart : Freedom Summer -- Shadows of youth. Unravelings : a generation comes apart ; Angry young men in the season of radical chic : the Black Power movement ; Exiles : the ennui of victory ; The power brokers : SNCC alumni and the making of Black political power ; Idols : the civil rights generation in power.A group portrait of leading civil rights activists who comprised the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Draws on original sources to illuminate how these young Americans challenged the way America thinks about civil rights, politics, and moral obligations.
Subjects: Biographies.; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); African American civil rights workers; African American college students; African American political activists; African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
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The last white knight [videorecording] / by Beckwith, Delay de la,on-screen participant.; Belafonte, Harry,1927-2023on-screen participant.(CARDINAL)176042; Freeman, Morgan,on-screen participant.(CARDINAL)348086; Ingram, Jim,1932-2009,on-screen participant.; Saltzman, Paul,film director,on-screen participant.; Virgil Films,publisher.;
Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte, Delay De La Beckwith, Paul Saltzman, Jim Ingram.In 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman, drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was arrested, spending ten days in jail. He was assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, Saltzman returned to find the KKK member who had punched him in the head, to explore if individual reconciliation was possible. He found him and a five year dialogue has ensued. Featuring interviews with Morgan Freeman and Harry Belafonte.DVD, widescreen.
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Beckwith, Byron de la.; Saltzman, Paul.; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); African American civil rights workers; Civil rights workers; Civil rights;
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The last white knight / by Saltzman, Paul,actordirectorproducer.; Beckwith, Delay de la,actor.; Freeman, Morgan,actor.; Belafonte, Harry,1927-actor.; Ingram, Jim,1932-2009,actor.; Virgil Films.;
Director, Paul Saltzman.Morgan Freeman, Harry Belafonte, Delay De La Beckwith, Paul Saltzman, Jim Ingram.In 1965, 21-year-old Torontonian, Paul Saltzman, drove to Mississippi, volunteering as a civil rights worker with the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. He was arrested, spending ten days in jail. He was assaulted by a young Klansman. In 2007, Saltzman returned to find the KKK member who had punched him in the head, to explore if individual reconciliation was possible. He found him and a five year dialogue has ensued. Featuring interviews with Morgan Freeman and Harry Belafonte.DVD; NTSC, region 1, widescreen (1.78).
Subjects: Documentary films.; Nonfiction films.; Documentary films.; Saltzman, Paul.; Beckwith, Byron de la Jr.; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Civil rights workers; African American civil rights workers; Civil rights;
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Freedom Summer for young people : the violent season that made Mississippi burn and made America a democracy / by Watson, Bruce,1953-author.(CARDINAL)543077; Stefoff, Rebecca,1951-adapter.(CARDINAL)284711; Adaptation of (expression).Stefoff, Rebecca,1951-author.(CARDINAL)284711; Watson, Bruce,1953-Freedom Summer.;
Before: Mississippi at a crossroads -- A risky bus ride -- The past is "not even past" -- Freedom Street -- Battleground for America -- "It is sure enough changing" -- The sickness and the scars -- July 16: Another so-called "Freedom Day" -- "Walk together, children" -- A blot on the country -- The flowering of Freedom Summer -- "The stuff democracy is made of" -- Beauty for ashes -- After: ordinary people made a difference."In the summer of 1964, as the Civil Rights movement boiled over, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) sent more than seven hundred college students to Mississippi to help black Americans already battling for democracy, their dignity and the right to vote. The campaign was called "Freedom Summer." But on the evening after volunteers arrived, three young civil rights workers went missing, presumed victims of the Ku Klux Klan. The disappearance focused America's attention on Mississippi. In the days and weeks that followed, volunteers and local black activists faced intimidation, threats, and violence from white people who didn't believe African Americans should have the right to vote. As the summer unfolded, volunteers were arrested or beaten. Black churches were burned. More Americans came to Mississippi, including doctors, clergymen, and Martin Luther King. A few frightened volunteers went home, but the rest stayed on in Mississippi, teaching in Freedom Schools, registering voters, and living with black people as equals. Freedom Summer brought out the best and the worst in America. The story told within these pages is of everyday people fighting for freedom, a fight that continues today. 'Freedom Summer for Young People' is a riveting account of a decisive moment in American history, sure to move and inspire readers"--Grades 7-9
Subjects: Young adult literature.; Mississippi Freedom Project.; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Civil rights workers;
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From sit-ins to SNCC : the student civil rights movement in the 1960s / by Morgan, Iwan W.(CARDINAL)201800; Davies, Philip,1948-(CARDINAL)521445;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "Complicated hospitality": the impact of the sit-ins on the ideology of Southern segregationists / George Lewis -- Breaching the wall of resistance: white southern reactions to the sits-ins / Clive Webb -- SNCCs: not one committee, but several / Peter Ling -- SNCC's stories at the barricades / Sharon Monteith -- From beloved community to imagined community: SNCC's intellectual transformation / Joe Street -- The sit-ins, SNCC, and cold war patriotism / Simon Hall -- From Greensboro to Notting Hill: the sit-ins in England / Stephen Tuck -- Epilogue: still running for freedom: Barack Obama and the legacy of the civil rights movement / Steven F. Lawson.An examination of the role of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and various SNCC committees in the Civil Rights Movement.
Subjects: Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); African Americans; Civil rights demonstrations; College students; Civil rights movements;
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John Lewis : a life / by Greenberg, David,1968-author.(CARDINAL)459589;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 643-666) and index.Part 1: Protest (1940-1968). The boy from Troy -- Nashville -- The sit-ins -- SNCC -- The freedom rides -- Open city -- The March on Washington -- One man, one vote -- Freedom Summer -- Africa -- Selma -- Revolt at Kingston Springs -- Lost in New York -- RFK -- Part 2: Politics (1969-2020). The Voter Education Project -- The first race -- ACTION -- Atlanta -- John vs. Julian -- On the Hill -- The Clinton years -- Ambitions -- In opposition -- "Because of you" -- Rock star -- Conscience of the Congress -- Lion in winter -- Invictus.Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he made into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he nearly died. Greenberg's biography traces Lewis's life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the "conscience of the Congress." Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, Greenberg's biography captures John Lewis's influential career through documents from dozens of archives, interviews with hundreds of people who knew Lewis, and long-lost footage of Lewis himself speaking to reporters from his hospital bed following his severe beating on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. With new details about his personal and professional relationships, John Lewis: A Life is the definitive biography of a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom.--
Subjects: Informational works.; Biographies.; Lewis, John, 1940-2020.; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) ; Voter Education Project (Atlanta, Ga.) ; Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council); Legislators ; African American civil rights workers ; Civil rights movements ;
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Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement / by Lewis, John,1940-2020(CARDINAL)193731; D'Orso, Michael.(CARDINAL)194510;
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Lewis, John, 1940-2020; United States. Congress. House; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Legislators; African American legislators; Civil rights workers; African American civil rights workers; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
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The time has come [videorecording] : 1964-1966 / by Bond, Julian,1940-2015.(CARDINAL)175670; DeVinney, James A.(CARDINAL)219429; Hampton, Henry,1940-1998.(CARDINAL)198936; Lacey, Madison Davis.; Blackside, Inc.(CARDINAL)160774; WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)(CARDINAL)154259;
Editor, Charles Scott ; executive producer, Henry Hampton ; series writer, Steve Fayer.Julian Bond.In this program, the sense of urgency and anger in the black communities in the North is articulated by Malcolm X, a minister of the Nation of Islam. It shows his influence both within the civil rights movement and outside, and the influence of his philosophy on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as they organize and issue the call for "Black power" in 1966 in Mississippi.Ages 12-Adults.
Subjects: Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; X, Malcolm, 1925-1965.; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); African Americans; Black power; Civil rights movements; Race discrimination; Race relations; Segregation;
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Walking with the wind : a memoir of the movement / by Lewis, John,1940-2020,author.(CARDINAL)193731; D'Orso, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)194510;
Congressman John Lewis recounts his life, which began in rural poverty in Alabama, and included leadership of the movement to desegregate Nashville, a speech at the 1963 March on Washington, chairmanship of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, and election to the U.S. Congress from Georgia in 1986. "John Lewis tells his story of struggle in the civil rights movement, of comradeship in that community, of its battles and triumphs."--Jacket.Lillian Smith Book Award, 1998
Subjects: Autobiographies.; Lewis, John, 1940-2020.; United States. Congress. House; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Legislators; African American legislators; Civil rights workers; African American civil rights workers; African Americans; Civil rights movements;
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John Lewis [large print] : a life / by Greenberg, David,1968-author.(CARDINAL)459589;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1021-1275).Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. He was a Freedom Rider who helped to integrate bus stations in the South, a leader of the Nashville sit-in movement, the youngest speaker at the 1963 March on Washington, and the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), which he made into one of the major civil rights organizations. He may be best remembered as the victim of a vicious beating by Alabama state troopers at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, where he nearly died. Greenberg's biography traces Lewis's life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed the Voter Education Project, which enrolled millions of African American voters across the South. The book reveals the little-known story of his political ascent first locally in Atlanta, and then as a member of Congress. Tapped to be a part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, he earned respect on both sides of the aisle for the sacrifices he had made on behalf of nonviolent integration in the South and came to be known as the "conscience of the Congress." Thoroughly researched and dramatically told, Greenberg's biography captures John Lewis's influential career through documents from dozens of archives, interviews with hundreds of people who knew Lewis, and long-lost footage of Lewis himself speaking to reporters from his hospital bed following his severe beating on "Bloody Sunday" in Selma. With new details about his personal and professional relationships, John Lewis: A Life is the definitive biography of a man whose heroism during the Civil Rights movement helped to bring America a new birth of freedom. --
Subjects: Informational works.; Biographies.; Large print books.; Lewis, John, 1940-2020.; African American civil rights workers; African American legislators; Civil rights movements; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.); Voter Education Project (Atlanta, Ga.); African American political activists.; Legislators; African American men.;
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