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Civil rights movements

A Summer of Kings

Han Nolan

Over the course of the summer of 1963, fourteen-year-old Esther Young discovers the passion within her when eighteen-year-old King-Roy Johnson, accused of murdering a white man in Alabama, comes to li

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A Dream of Freedom

Diane McWhorter

Examines the rise of the Civil Rights movement in America, the men and women whose lives made an impact in the pursuit of social and political equality, and landmark Supreme Court cases that changed t

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The Summer We Got Saved

Pat Cunningham Devoto

Three residents of a small Southern town find their lives forever changed as they face the issue of integration in the 1960s.

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The Chamber

John Grisham

In 1967, Mississippi Klansman Sam Cayhall is accused of bombing Marvin Kramer's law offices, killing Kramer's two sons.

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Fannie Lou Hamer

Laura Baskes Litwin

A biography of the civil rights activist who devoted her life to helping blacks register to vote and gain a national political voice.

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The Civil Rights Movement

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The Chamber

John Grisham

In 1967, Mississippi Klansman Sam Cayhall is accused of bombing Marvin Kramer's law offices, killing Kramer's two sons.

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