Good Trouble: John Lewis

41) Turning 15 on the road to freedom: my story of the 1965 Selma Voting Rights March

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A 50th-anniversary tribute shares the story of the youngest person to complete the momentous Selma to Montgomery March, describing her frequent imprisonments for her participation in nonviolent demonstrations and how she felt about her involvement in historic Civil Rights events.--

42) The unfinished agenda of the Selma-Montgomery voting rights march

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Landmarks in civil rights history

43) Untold stories of the Nashville civil rights movement

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Black and white: Nashville sit-ins of 1960, Nashville Banner's coverage and opposition to the movement; Banner leads effort to remove James Lawson from Vanderbilt. Ben West: Bombing of Z. Alexander Looby's home leads to a confrontation with Mayor West on courthouse steps by Diane Nash. Shades of gray: Desegregation of Buena Vista Elementary School; John Kasper led opposition to desegregation; bombing of Hattie Cotton Elementary School; modern...

44) Walking with the wind: a memoir of the movement

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Lewis, John

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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....

45) We shall overcome: press photographs of Nashville during the Civil Rights era

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"Fifty years after Martin Luther King Jr.'s death--and at a time when race relations and social justice are again at the forefront of our country's consciousness--this book expands on a Frist Center for the Visual Arts exhibition to present a selection of approximately one hundred photographs that document an important period in Nashville's struggle for racial equality. The images were taken between 1957, the year that desegregation in public schools...

46) What was the March on Washington?

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Describes the 1963 March on Washington, helmed by Martin Luther King, Jr., where over two hundred thousand people gathered to demand equal rights for all races, and explains why this event is still important in American history today.

47) Words that built a nation: voices of democracy that have shaped America's history

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Miller, Marilyn

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From the Constitution and the Gettysburg Address to the 2015 Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage, the updated collection preserves the documents of the first edition and introduces the landmark statements that are impacting our nation today.