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MLK Day Resources Kids TEENS Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & March, Volumes 1, 2, 3 by John Lewis Her Family’S Fight for Desegregation GRAPHIC BOOK LEW V MLK Day Resources Kids TEENS Separate Is Never Equal: Sylvia Mendez & March, Volumes 1, 2, 3 by John Lewis Her Family’s Fight for Desegregation GRaPhIC book lEW V. 1, V. 2, V.3 by Duncan Tonatiuh (j 379.263 ton) Turning 15 on the Road to Freedom: Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer, My Story of the 1965 Selma Voting Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement Rights March by Lynda Lowery (j b ham) (Y 323.1196 LOW) A Good Kind of Trouble by Lisa Moore Ramée Twelve Days in May Freedom Ride 1961 (j Ram/CaUDIll) by Larry Dane Brimmer (j 323.092 bRI/CaUDIll) I am Martin Luther King, Jr. by Brad Meltzer (j b kIn) Stamped: Racism, Antiracism and You by Jason Reynolds (Y 305.8009 REY) I’m an Activist by Wil Mara (j 303.372 maR) The Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Seeds of Freedom: The Peaceful by Noah Berlatsky (Y 364.1524 ass) Integration of Huntsville, Alabama (j 323.1196 bas) M.L.K.: Journey of a King by Tonya Bolden (Y b kIn) Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of Dear Martin by Nic Stone (Y FIC STO) the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by Jonah Winter (PIC WIn) The March Against Fear: the Last Great Walk of the Civil Rights Movement and Let the Children March the Emergence of Black Power (PIC Cla/monaRCh) by Ann Bausum (Y 323.1196 baU) The Civil Rights Movement: An The Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Interactive History Adventure Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement (j 323.1196 aDa/YoU ChoosE books) by Teri Kanefield (Y 323.092 kan) The Civil Rights Movement by Eric Braun Freedom Walkers: the Story of the Montgomery Bus (j 323.1196 bRa) Boycott by Russell Freedman (Y 323.119 FRE) Child of the Civil Rights Movement All American Boys by Paula Young Shelton (j 323.1196 shE) by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely (Y FIC REY) The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Y FIC tho) Undefeated by Kwame Alexander and Kadir Nelson (j 811 alE/blUEstEm) Piecing Me Together by Renee Watson Lions of Little Rock by Kristin Levine (j lEV) (Y FIC WAT) Heroes of Black History (sound recording) How It Went Down by Kekla Magoon bk on CD j 973.049 Who (Y FIC maG) My Daddy, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Wilson (Y b WIl) by Martin Luther King III (books that talk j b kIn) Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice by Phillip M. 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