Because of you, John Lewis : the true story of a remarkable friendship by Pinkney, Andrea Davis 

BTSB Prebound(Scholastic Press, 2022)

BTSB #: 718981 In Bindery

Dewey: 323.1/CAges: 7-9   
AR: 3.9 MG Lexile: 720

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Subjects: Lewis, John,|d1940-2020 Faw, Tybre Civil rights movements - History|y20th century African American legislators - Biography African American civil rights workers Friendship

Summary: An inspiring story of a friendship between Congressman John Lewis and ten-year-old activist Tybre Faw.

March against fear by Bausum, Ann 

BTSB Prebound(National Geographic, 2017)

BTSB #: 098269 Available

Dewey: 323.1196/NAges: 12-16   
AR: 8.1 MG RC: 10.5 6-8 Lexile: 1140

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Subjects: Meredith, James,|d1933- Civil rights demonstrations - Mississippi - History|y20th century Racism - Mississippi - History|y20th century African American civil rights workers Civil rights workers African American college students African Americans - Civil rights - Mississippi - History|y20th century Black power - Mississippi - History|y20th century Mississippi

Summary: Mississippi. 1966. On a hot June afternoon an African-American man named James Meredith set out to walk through his home state, intending to fight racism and fear with his feet. A seemingly simple plan, but one teeming with risk. Just one day later Meredith was shot and wounded in a roadside ambush. Within 24 hours, Martin Luther King, Jr., Stokely Carmichael, and other civil rights leaders had taken up Meredith's cause, determined to overcome this violent act and complete Meredith's walk.

Song for the unsung : Bayard Rustin, the man behind the 1963 March on Washington by Weatherford, Carole Boston 

BTSB Prebound(Holt, 2022)

BTSB #: 924816 Available

Dewey: 323.092/BAges: 6-9   
Lexile: 790

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Subjects: Rustin, Bayard,|d1912-1987 Civil rights workers - United States African American civil rights workers African Americans - Civil rights - History|y20th century Civil rights movements - United States - Songs Civil rights movements - United States - History|y20th century United States - Race relations - History|y20th century

Summary: A picture book biography of Bayard Rustin, the gay Black man behind the March on Washington of 1963.