<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[subject results for "African Americans — Civil rights."]]></title><description><![CDATA[subject results for "African Americans — Civil rights."]]></description><link>https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/christchurch/rss/search?query=%22African%20Americans%20%E2%80%94%20Civil%20rights.%22&amp;searchType=subject&amp;origin=core-catalog-explore&amp;page=2&amp;view=grouped</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2026 20:49:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[Burn Down Master's House]]></title><description><![CDATA[As turmoil simmers within a divided nation, smoke from another blaze begins to rise. Sparked by individual acts of resistance among those enslaved across the American South, their seemingly disparate rebellions fuel a singular inferno of justice, connecting them in ways quiet at times, explosive at others. As these flames rise, so will they. Luke, quick-witted and literate, and Henri, a man with a strong and defiant spirit, forge an unbreakable bond at a Virginia plantation called Magnolia Row. Both seek escape from unimaginable cruelty. And sure as the fires of hell, Luke and Henri will leave their mark, sparking resistance among the lives they touch. One is Josephine, a young, sharp, and observant girl who wields silence as her greatest weapon. A witness to Luke and Henri's resilience, she listens, watches, waits for the moment to make her move. Then there is Charity Butler, her husband a formerly enslaved man who proved his ferocity as a young boy standing alongside Josephine. At his encouragement, Charity fights for her freedom in court and wins only to battle a deeply unjust system designed to destroy the life they've built. And finally, there is Nathaniel, who ruthlessly exploits other Black people and mirrors the cruelty of the white men who, like him, are enslavers. A perversion of the system of slavery, his fragile and contradictory rule will become a catalyst of its own.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1820326</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1820326</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cane, Clay]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1820326037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The War Within A War]]></title><description><![CDATA[An examination of the relationship between the Vietnam War and the civil rights struggle in the United States, focusing on the experiences of African Americans during the 1960s and 1970s. Drawing on the lives of soldiers, medical personnel, journalists, activists, artists, and political leaders, the work explores how military service in Vietnam intersected with domestic movements for racial equality. Through individual narratives and broader historical context, the book analyzes the social, political, and cultural forces that shaped the era and assesses the war's impact on race relations in the United States.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1771681</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1771681</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Haygood, Wil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1771681037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Black Struggle in Vietnam and at Home</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nonviolent]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rev. Lawson was one of the most influential yet unheralded heroes of the civil rights era. He rose as a strategist, teacher, and organizer in pivotal campaigns on the national stage against racial and economic injustice. Lawson's memoir spans 95 years, but it begins far from the spotlight in a large, working-class Ohio family. The son and grandson of Methodist ministers, he receives his license to preach before graduating from high school. Lawson goes on to serve time in prison for refusing the Korean War draft, and learns from independence movements during three years in India and Africa. He then fortifies the principles of a new American Revolution when he teaches nonviolent direct action centered in love and moral clarity to the Little Rock Nine, the Mississippi Freedom Summer volunteers, and countless others. He also becomes a leader in the 1960 Nashville sit-ins, the 1963 Birmingham campaign, the 1966 Meredith March Against Fear, and the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers' strike. Nonviolent delivers an intimate self-portrait of Lawson as a man who recognized the inherent dignity of everyone, and challenged all forms of violence, including police brutality, enforced poverty, and what he called plantation capitalism. It shows his quest for justice continuing in Los Angeles well into the 21st century, as he helped foster a more inclusive labor movement and an enduring immigrant rights movement. Nonviolent is a riveting historical narrative from a central figure in global liberation and a testament to compelling a nation to live up to its founding ideals of liberty and justice for all.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1790443</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1790443</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Lawson, James M., 1928-2024]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1790443037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Memoir of Resistance, Agitation, and Love</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Young King]]></title><description><![CDATA[We know who Martin Luther King, Jr. became--but who was he before he stepped into our collective history? In Young King, Lerone Martin offers a new understanding of the preacher and activist's life by turning to his formative years. Until now, we have almost presumed that his path to greatness was a foregone conclusion. But the truth is more complicated. Lerone Martin strips away the mythos and gets to King's roots--his days as 'Little Mike' on Auburn Avenue, his academic struggles and flashes of brilliance, summers spent in the tobacco fields of Connecticut, his first experiences of racism and encounters with the police, his teenage missteps and adventures in love, and his winding road to seminary. We witness King in his search for a name, an identity, a God, a partner, and a life. Compassionately told and diligently researched, Young King is a testament to how history shapes a leader and a reminder that our heroes--like ourselves--are human, extraordinary and ordinary at once.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1817200</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1817200</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Martin, Lerone]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1817200037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Making of Martin Luther King Jr</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Abolition]]></title><description><![CDATA[An icon of revolutionary politics, Angela Y. Davis has been at the forefront of collective movements for prison abolition for over fifty years. Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, the first of two important new volumes, brings together an essential collection of Davis's essays, conversations, and interviews over the years, showing how her thinking has sharpened and evolved even as she has remained uncompromising in her commitment to collective liberation. Davis traces a genealogy of the penal system, from slavery to the prison industrial complex, offering a trenchant analysis of the relationship between the prison system and capitalism, both in the US and on a global scale. Combining decades of analytical brilliance and lessons from organising both inside and beyond prison walls, Davis addresses the history of abolitionist practice, details the unique contributions of women to abolitionist struggles, and offers the radical tools we need for revolutionary change. Powerful and rewarding, filled with insight and provocation, Abolition: Politics, Practices, Promises, is essential reading for anyone seeking to imagine a world without prisons.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1433834</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1433834</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Davis, Angela Y. 1944-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1433834037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Volume 1, Politics, Practices, Promises</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[We Refuse]]></title><description><![CDATA[Black resistance to white supremacy is often reduced to a simple binary, between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s nonviolence and Malcolm X's 'by any means necessary.' In 'We Refuse', historian Kellie Carter Jackson urges us to move past this false choice, offering an unflinching examination of the breadth of Black responses to white oppression, particularly those pioneered by Black women. The dismissal of 'Black violence' as an illegitimate form of resistance is itself a manifestation of white supremacy, a distraction from the insidious, unrelenting violence of structural racism. Force--from work stoppages and property destruction to armed revolt--has played a pivotal part in securing freedom and justice for Black people since the days of the American and Haitian Revolutions. But violence is only one tool among many. Carter Jackson examines other, no less vital tactics that have shaped the Black struggle, from the restorative power of finding joy in the face of suffering to the quiet strength of simply walking away. Clear-eyed, impassioned, and ultimately hopeful, 'We Refuse' offers a fundamental corrective to the historical record, a love letter to Black resilience, and a path toward liberation.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1582620</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1582620</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jackson, Kellie Carter]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1582620037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Forceful History of Black Resistance</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Barn]]></title><description><![CDATA[How forces from around the world converged on the Mississippi Delta to bring about the most consequential murder in US history. Emmett Till's murder is one of the most infamous in American history; a moment that, more than any other, awakened the world to the racism of the Deep South. Yet despite growing up just a few miles from where it happened, Wright Thompson knew nothing of it until he left Mississippi. This is no accident: the cover-up began at once, and it is ongoing. Over the course of five years' research, Thompson has learnt that almost every part of the standard account of Till's killing is wrong. In August 1955, after the two men charged with the murder were acquitted by an all-white jury, they gave a false confession to a journalist: one that was misleading about where the murder took place and who was involved. We now know that at least eight people were present, and many more complicit. And we now know precisely where it took place: inside a barn on a 36-square-mile grid called Township 22 North, Range 4 West. This book tells the story of that barn. It is the story of what really happened on the night of August 28, 1955, and of the individuals who have spent decades bringing the truth to light. And it is the story of the centuries-old forces that made that night inevitable: forces that, over the course of 200 years, transformed Township 22 North, Range 4 West from Choctaw land, to a slave plantation, to a sharecropper's farm, to the site of the most significant murder in US history. The result is a revelatory work of investigative reportage and a panoramic new history of white supremacy in America. It maps the road that the US – and the world – must travel to heal its oldest, deepest wound.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1469787</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1469787</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Thompson, Wright]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1469787037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Murder of Emmett Till and the Cradle of American Racism</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Race in the Crucible of War]]></title><description><![CDATA[When African American servicemen went to fight in the Vietnam War, discrimination and prejudice followed them. Even in a faraway country, their military experiences were shaped by the racial environment of the home front. War is often viewed as a crucible that can transform society, but American race relations proved remarkably durable. In Race in the Crucible of War, Gerald F. Goodwin examines how Black servicemen experienced and interpreted racial issues during their time in Vietnam. Drawing on more than fifty new oral interviews and significant archival research, as well as newspapers, periodicals, memoirs, and documentaries, Goodwin reveals that for many African Americans the front line and the home front were two sides of the same coin. Serving during the same period as the civil rights movement and the race riots in Chicago, Detroit, and dozens of other American cities, these men increasingly connected the racism that they encountered in the barracks and on the battlefields with the tensions and violence that were simmering back home.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1372362</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1372362</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Goodwin, Gerald F.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1372362037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>African American Servicemen and the War in Vietnam</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[An American Story]]></title><description><![CDATA[From the fireside tales in an African village, through the unspeakable passage across the Atlantic, to the backbreaking work in the fields of the South, this is a story of a people's struggle and strength, horror and hope. This is the story of American slavery, a story that needs to be told and understood by all of us. A testament to the resilience of the African American community, this book honours what has been and envisions what is to be.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1335423</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1335423</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexander, Kwame]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1335423037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Nickel Boys]]></title><description><![CDATA[1960s Florida. Kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood Curtis is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South, one mistake is enough to destroy the future. He is sentenced to a juvenile reformatory called the Nickel Academy, whose mission statement says it provides "physical, intellectual and moral training" so the delinquent boys in their charge can become "honorable and honest men." In reality, the sadistic staff beats and sexually abuses the students, corrupt officials and locals steal food and supplies, and any boy who resists is likely to disappear "out back." He meets Turner, who knows that the world is crooked, and that the only way to survive is to scheme and avoid trouble. A decision creates repercussions that will echo down the decades.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1063922</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1063922</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Whitehead, Colson, 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1063922037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>A Novel</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Story of Civil Rights]]></title><description><![CDATA[A history of race relations in the U.S. includes coverage of slavery, abolition and segregation as well as the events of the Civil Rights movement, discussing subjects ranging from protests and speeches to legislation and the famous people around the world who helped promote equal rights.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C999838</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C999838</guid><category><![CDATA[EASY_READER]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Mara, Wil]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/999838037</comments><format>EASY_READER</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Am Not your Negro]]></title><description><![CDATA[In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the lives of three of his murdered friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. He died before it could be completed. In his documentary film "I Am Not Your Negro", Raoul Peck imagins the book Baldwin never wrote, using his original words to create a radical, powerful and poetic work on race in the United States then, and today.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1599585</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1599585</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Baldwin, James, 1924-1987]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1599585037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Medgar & Myrlie]]></title><description><![CDATA[Myrlie Louise Beasley met Medgar Evers on her first day of college. They fell in love at first sight, married just one year later, and Myrlie left school to focus on their growing family. Medgar became the field secretary for the Mississippi branch of the NAACP, charged with beating back the most intractable and violent resistance to black voting rights in the country. Myrlie served as Medgar's secretary and confidant, working hand in hand with him as they struggled against public accommodations and school segregation, lynching, violence, and sheer despair within their state's "black belt." They fought to desegregate the intractable University of Mississippi, organized picket lines and boycotts, despite repeated terroristic threats, including the 1962 firebombing of their home, where they lived with their three young children. On June 12, 1963, Medgar Evers became the highest profile victim of Klan-related assassination of a black civil rights leader at that time; gunned down in the couple's driveway in Jackson. In the wake of his tragic death, Myrlie carried on their civil rights legacy; writing a book about Medgar's fight, trying to win a congressional seat, and becoming a leader of the NAACP in her own right. In this groundbreaking and thrilling account of two heroes of the civil rights movement, Joy-Ann Reid uses Medgar and Myrlie's relationship as a lens through which to explore the on-the-ground work that went into winning basic rights for Black Americans, and the repercussions that still resonate today.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1437909</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1437909</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1437909037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coretta]]></title><description><![CDATA[This is the autobiography of Coretta Scott King––wife of Martin Luther King, Jr.; founder of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (the King Center); architect of the MLK, Jr. legacy; and global leader in movements for civil and human rights as well as peace. Learn about how a girl born in the segregated deep south became a global leader at the forefront of the peace movement and an unforgettable champion of social change. Resilience, bravery, and joy lie at the center of this timeless story about fighting for justice against all odds.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1435395</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1435395</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1435395037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Autobiography of Mrs. Coretta Scott King</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[How We Can Win]]></title><description><![CDATA[A breakdown of the economic and social injustices facing Black people and other marginalised citizens, inspired by political activist Kimberly Jones' viral video. 'So if I played 400 rounds of Monopoly with you and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played, if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win?' How We Can Win will expand upon statements Kimberly Jones made in a viral video posted in June 2020 following the murder of George Floyd at the hands of police. Through her personal experience, observations and Monopoly analogy, she illuminates the economic disparities Black Americans have faced for generations and offers ways to fight against a system that is still rigged.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1299349</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1299349</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jones, Kimberly]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1299349037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Race, History and Changing the Money Game That&apos;s Rigged</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Choosing Brave]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mamie Till-Mobley is the mother of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old boy who was brutally murdered while visiting the South in 1955. His death became a rallying point for the civil rights movement, but few know that it was his mother who was the catalyst for bringing his name to the forefront of history. In Choosing Brave, Angela Joy and Janelle Washington offer a testament to the power of love, the bond of motherhood, and one woman's unwavering advocacy for justice. It is a poised, moving work about a woman who refocused her unimaginable grief into action for the greater good. Mamie fearlessly refused to allow America to turn away from what happened to her only child. She turned pain into change that ensured her son's life mattered.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1377327</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1377327</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joy, Angela, 1975-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1377327037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>How Mamie Till-Mobley and Emmett Till Sparked the Civil Rights Movement</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ida B. Wells, Voice of Truth]]></title><description><![CDATA[An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1303347</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1303347</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Duster, Michelle]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1303347037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Educator, Feminist, and Anti-lynching Civil Rights Leader</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Coretta]]></title><description><![CDATA[Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose. While enrolled as one of the first black scholarship students recruited to Antioch College, she became politically and socially active and committed to the peace movement. As a graduate student at the New England Conservatory of Music, determined to pursue her own career as a concert singer, she met Martin Luther King Jr., a Baptist minister insistent that his wife stay home with the children. But, in love and devoted to shared Christian beliefs as well as shared racial and economic justice goals, she married Dr. King, and events promptly thrust her into a maelstrom of history throughout which she was a strategic partner, a standard-bearer, and so much more. As a widow and single mother of four, she worked tirelessly to found and develop the King Center as a citadel for world peace; lobbied for fifteen years for a U.S. national holiday in honour of her husband; championed women's, workers', and gay rights; and was a powerful international voice for nonviolence, freedom, and human dignity.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1007619</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1007619</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1007619037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>My Life, My Love, My Legacy</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Voice of Freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stirring poems and stunning collage illustrations combine to celebrate the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a champion of equal voting rights.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1154300</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1154300</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Weatherford, Carole Boston, 1956-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1154300037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Fannie Lou Hamer : Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Locked up for Freedom]]></title><description><![CDATA["In 1963, more than 30 African American girls, ages 11-14, were arrested for taking part in Civil Rights protests in Americus, Georgia. Then came a greater ordeal: confinement in a Civil-War-era stockade."--Provided by publisher.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1160458</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1160458</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Schwartz, Heather E.]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1160458037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle>Civil Rights Protesters at the Leesburg Stockade</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Birmingham Foot Soldiers]]></title><description><![CDATA[Reverends Martin Luther King Jr., Andrew Young and Fred Shuttlesworth are iconic names associated with the Birmingham campaign of the civil rights movement. Credit also is due to many local residents who risked their lives for the cause. Myrna Carter Jackson holds no shame in the police record she garnered in protest of the harsh treatment of African Americans in the city. Carolyn Walker Williams, who knew the injustice blacks faced in East Birmingham even as a child, was arrested in protest for the first time while still in school. Gerald Wren grew up in the Smithfield neighborhood, part of which was nicknamed "Dynamite Hill" as a result of the bombings of blacks' houses, churches and schools. Join author Nick Patterson as he interviews some of Birmingham's foot soldiers and recounts the struggle and adversity overcome.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C844457</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C844457</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[und]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Patterson, Nick, 1960-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2014 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/844457037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>Voices From The Civil Rights Movement</subtitle><language>und</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks]]></title><description><![CDATA[The definitive political biography of Rosa Parks examines her six decades of activism, challenging perceptions of her as an accidental actor in the civil rights movement and presenting a corrective to the popular notion of Rosa Parks.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C966058</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C966058</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Theoharis, Jeanne, 1969-]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/966058037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[Passion]]></title><description><![CDATA[90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books 'we are the ones we have been waiting for' These poems of radical love, urgency and global consciousness reach across borders to break open the silence of oppression and the taboo, liberating both body and soul. Lively and enigmatic, Passion is June Jordan's most accomplished and animated collection. Her virtuosic, resolute words have inspired generations of readers and activists across the world, from Nobel Laureates to US Presidents.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1805190</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1805190</guid><category><![CDATA[EBOOK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jordan, June, 1936-2002]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1805190037</comments><format>EBOOK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[I Have A Dream]]></title><description><![CDATA[On August 28, 1963, on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, Martin Luther King gave one of the most powerful and memorable speeches in our nation's history.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1755914</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1755914</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1755914037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle></subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item><item><title><![CDATA[New Prize for These Eyes]]></title><description><![CDATA[More than a century of civil rights activism reached a mountaintop with the arrival of a Black man in the Oval Office. But hopes for a unified, post-racial America were deflated when Barack Obama's presidency met with furious opposition. A white, right-wing backlash was brewing, and a volcanic new movement a second civil rights movement began to erupt. In New Prize for These Eyes, award-winning author Juan Williams shines a light on this historic, new movement. Who are its heroes? Where is it headed? What fires, furies, and frustrations distinguish it from its predecessor? In the 20th century, Black activists and their white allies called for equal rights and an end to segregation. They appealed to the Declaration of Independence's defiant assertion that "all men are created equal." They prioritized legal battles in the courtroom and legislative victories in Congress. Today's movement is dealing with new realities. Demographic changes have placed progressive whites in a new role among the largest, youngest population of Blacks, Hispanics, and Asians in the nation's history. The new generation is social media savvy, and they have an agenda fueled by discontent with systemic racism and the persistent scourge of police brutality. Today's activists are making history in a new economic and cultural landscape, and they are using a new set of tools and strategies to do so. Williams brilliantly traces the arc of this new civil rights era, from Obama to Charlottesville to January 6th and a Confederate flag in the Capitol. An essential read for activists, historians, and anyone passionate about America's future, New Prize for These Eyes is more than a recounting of history. It is a forward-looking call to action, urging Americans to get in touch with the progress made and hurdles yet to be overcome.]]></description><link>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1549684</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S37C1549684</guid><category><![CDATA[BK]]></category><category><![CDATA[eng]]></category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Williams, Juan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>https://christchurch.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1549684037</comments><format>BK</format><subtitle>The Rise of America&apos;s Second Civil Rights Movement</subtitle><language>eng</language><image_url/></item></channel></rss>