Ain't gonna let nobody turn me 'round : my story of the making of Martin Luther King Day by Kirkwood, Kathlyn J. 

BTSB Prebound(Versify, 2022)

BTSB #: 520589 Available

Dewey: 394.261/AAges: 8-12   


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Subjects: Kirkwood, Kathlyn J Martin Luther King, Jr., Day Race relations Civil rights movements - Biography

Summary: This memoir-in-verse tells the moving story of how a nation learned to celebrate a hero. Through years of protests and petition, Kathlyn's story highlights the foot soldiers who fought to make Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday a national holiday.

This is your time by Bridges, Ruby 

BTSB Prebound(Delacorte Press, 2020)

BTSB #: 150619 Available

Dewey: 370/BAges: 8-12   
AR: 5.5 MG Lexile: 940 F&P: W

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Subjects: Bridges, Ruby African American women - Biography Civil rights movements - Biography School integration Race relations - United States

Summary: Civil rights icon Ruby Bridges shares her story and offers a call to action.