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1) Becoming
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 29
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
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Description
"In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her-from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world's most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A comprehensive portrait of the First Lady describes her working-class upbringing on Chicago's South Side, her education at Princeton and Harvard during the racially charged 1980s, and her marriage to the future forty-fourth president.
With disciplined reporting and a storyteller's eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago's largely segregated South Side.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (35 video file, approximately 1000 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The California Newsreel Collection features the best fims from their library. Included in the collection are impactul films such as Race - The Power of an Illusion, Black Gold, Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask, and others. California Newsreel produces cutting edge, social justice films that inspire, educate and engage audiences.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The road to Brown tells the story of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling as the culmination of a brilliant legal assault on segregation that launched the Civil Rights movement. It is also a moving and long overdue tribute to a visionary but little known black lawyer, Charles Hamilton Houston, "the man who killed Jim Crow." The road to Brown plunges us into the nightmare world of Jim Crow that robbed former slaves of the rights granted by the 14th...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work"
"Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades... the world would feel a lot better if there were more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us."—Michelle Obama
"The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House...
Finalist for the NAACP Image Award for "Outstanding Literary Work"
"Valerie has been one of Barack and my closest confidantes for decades... the world would feel a lot better if there were more people like Valerie blazing the trail for the rest of us."—Michelle Obama
"The ultimate Obama insider" (The New York Times) and longest-serving senior advisor in the Obama White House...
7) Lawless
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
576 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mercer Early has been assigned to defend an L.A. cop who killed his lover - and confessed to it. The case seems unwinnable until Mercer learns that two more cops killed their spouses, and the LAPD denies any connection among the murders.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
399 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a small Georgia town where racial tensions run high and lives are at stake, can one lawyer stand up for justice against the tide of prejudice on every side? Adisa Johnson, a young African American attorney, is living her dream of practicing law with a prestigious firm in downtown Atlanta. Then a split-second mistake changes the course of her career. Left with no other options, Adisa returns to her hometown where a few days earlier a white police...
Author
Publisher
Plaza Janés
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
Español
Description
An intimate memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House.
Protagonista de una vida plena y exitosa, Michelle Obama se ha convertido en una de las mujeres más icónicas y cautivadoras de nuestra era. Como primera dama de los Estados Unidos de América, y primera afroamericana en desempeñar esa...
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
213 pages : illustrations, portraits, photographs (chiefly black and white) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coretta Scott King Honor-winning author Tonya Bolden chronicles the life of an intrepid lawyer and civil rights pioneer. Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent white Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor and the underserved. She was the first lawyer to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
248 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thurgood Marshall became the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, but it's his life leading up to that point--from school troublemaker to passionate lawyer--that makes him both accessibly real and a role model to Americans of every color.
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
In this imaginatively illustrated book from the Work It, Girl series, discover how Michelle became an inspirational leader, FLOTUS, lawyer, author, and role model in this true story of her life. Then, learn 10 key lessons from her work you can apply to your own life. Michelle Obama grew up on the South Side of Chicago in a little bungalow with a close-knit family. She loved going to school, and she knew that, one day, she would use her voice to empower...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
358 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sharyn McCrumb comes a finely wrought novel set in nineteenth-century West Virginia, based on the true story of one of the strangest murder trials in American history--the case of the Greenbrier Ghost. Lakin, West Virginia, 1930. Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P.D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking...
Author
Publisher
Convergent
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
viii, 292 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"He was seventeen when an all-white jury sentenced him to prison for a crime he didn't commit. Now, in this unforgettable memoir, a pioneering lawyer recalls the journey that led to his exoneration-and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. Seventeen years old and facing nearly thirty years behind bars, Jarrett Adams sought to figure out the why behind his fate. Sustained by his mother and aunts who brought...
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1120L
Physical Desc
143 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In October 1919, a group of Black sharecroppers met at a church in an Arkansas village to organize a union. Bullets rained down on the meeting from outside. Many were killed by a white mob in what became known as the Elaine Massacre. Others were rounded up and arrested. Twelve of the sharecroppers were hastily tried and sentenced to death. Scipio Africanus Jones, a self-taught lawyer who'd been born enslaved, answered the call and represented the...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xvii, 494 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
" Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's movements. A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated...
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