Delve Deeper into American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

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Delve Deeper into American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs

A film by Grace Lee become leaders in their fields: West Los Angeles. There, he for civil and human rights, bestselling novelist Alice Walker, begins to undergo a startling meditating in the modern age poets Audre Lorde and Nikki transformation from on the distance traveled since Giovanni, writer Paule Marshall, neighborhood outcast to the days of Jim Crow and activist Grace Lee Boggs, and basketball superstar, and segregation. Rooted in Lewis' musician Abbey Lincoln among eventually to reluctant messiah personal story, it also reflects them. of a "divided, downtrodden on the highs and lows of the people." broader civil rights movement Haley, Alex. The In graphic novel format. Autobiography of . Ford, Jamie. Hotel on the New York: Ballantine Books, Corner of Bitter and Sweet. Hasday, Judy L. Women in 1965. This autobiography New York: Ballantine Books, the Civil Rights Movement recounts the life of Malcolm X 2009. Henry Lee is a Chinese- (Finding a Voice: Women's from his traumatic childhood American in Seattle who, in Fight for Equality in U.S. plagued by racism to his years 1986, has just lost his wife to Society) Philadelphia: Mason as a drug dealer, his conversion cancer. After Henry hears that Crest Publishers, 2013. to the Black Muslim sect (Nation the belongings of Japanese Explore the role of women in of Islam) while in prison for immigrants interned during the civil rights movement within burglary, his subsequent years WWII have been found in the the context of the larger of militant activism, and the basement of the Panama Hotel, changes in society including turn late in his life to more the narrative shuttles between reconstruction, Jim Crow laws orthodox Islam. 1986 and the 1940s in an and school integration, ending engaging story that chronicles with 1960s activism and Clayborne, Carson. The the losses of old age and the successes. Autobiography of Martin bewilderment of youth. ______Luther King Jr. New York: FICTION FOR YOUNGER Intellectual Property Ellision, Ralph. Invisible READERS Management, 1998. A concise Man. New York: Vintage first-person account of MLK’s International, 1952. The Banks, Jacqueline Turner. A life, this book documents his nameless narrator of the novel Day for Vincent Chin and Me. birth in Atlanta in 1929, to his describes growing up in a black Boston: Houghton Mifflin, awakening social consciousness community in the South, 2001. Japanese-American and discovery of the teachings attending a Negro college from Tommy saves his sister's deaf of Mahatma Gandhi. which he is expelled, moving to friend from being hit by a New York and becoming the speeding car. The incident spurs Kedourie, Elie; Sylvia chief spokesman of the Harlem the boy and his friends to try Kedourie, Helen Kedourie. branch of "the Brotherhood", and build a speed bump to deter Hegel and Marx: and retreating amid violence further accidents. His quest Introductory Lectures. and confusion to the basement coincides with a rally his mother Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1995. lair of the Invisible Man he is planning to fight racism. Based on Elie Kedourie's imagines himself to be. celebrated lectures at the ______Doctorow, Cory. Homeland. London School of Economics, NON-FICTION FOR YOUNGER New York: TOR Teen, 2013. this is a sparkling introduction READERS When Marcus, once called to the often difficult, sometimes M1k3y, receives a thumb drive opaque writings of Hegel and Schlimm, John. Stand Up!: containing evidence of corporate Marx. With characteristic 75 Young Activists Who Rock and governmental treachery, his eloquence and clarity, Kedourie the World and How You Can, job, fame, family, and well- provides an authoritative Too! Orangevale, CA: being, as well as his reform- exposition of the contributions Publishing Syndicate LLC, minded employer's election made by these two thinkers 2013. Young people have the campaign, are all endangered. shaping the foundations of unique power to change the contemporary political world like no one else. This new Gaarder, Jostein. Sohpie's philosophy. anthology celebrates young World. New York: Farrar, ______people as activists and Straus and Giroux, 1991. ADULT FICTION advocates who have let their When 14-year-old Sophie voices and actions ROCK the encounters a mysterious mentor Beatty, Paul. The White Boy causes and issues most who introduces her to Shuffle: A Novel. New York: important to them. philosophy, mysteries deepen in Pickador, 1996. Paul Beatty's her own life. This title sets out hilarious and scathing debut Lewis, John; Aydin, Andrew. to draw teenagers into the world novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, March: Book One. Marietta, of Socrates, Descartes, Spinoza, an awkward, black surfer bum GA: Top Shelf Productions, Hegel and all the great who is moved by his mother 2013. A vivid first-hand account philosophers. from Santa Monica to urban of John Lewis' lifelong struggle