Rosa Parks

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334
.M753
P38427
2005

Available @ FCC



 She had not sought this moment but she was ready for it. When the policeman bent down to ask "Auntie, are you going to move?" all the strength of all the people through all those many years joined in her. She said, "No." An inspiring account of an event that shaped American history Fifty years after her refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus, Mrs. Rosa Parks is still one of the most important figures in the American civil rights movement. This picture- book tribute to Mrs. Parks is a celebration of her courageous action and the events that followed.       Award-winning poet, writer, and activist Nikki Giovanni’s evocative text combines with Bryan Collier’s striking cut-paper images to retell the story of this historic event from a wholly unique and original perspective.   Rosa is a 2006 Caldecott Honor Book and the winner of the 2006 Coretta Scott King Illustrator Award.



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334
.M753
P3868
2005

Available @ GCC



 Rosa Parks : civil rights pioneer

Shores, Erika L., 1976-

Mankato, Minn. : Capstone Press, c2005.

32 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.

Provides an introduction to the life and biography of Rosa Parks, who helped start the civil rights movement in the United States.





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185
.R6737
2003
Available @ FCC



 The Rosa Parks story

[Santa Monica, CA] : Xenon Pictures, [2003]

1 videodisc (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Dramatic biography of Rosa McCauley Parks, who in 1955 created the spark that began the modern Civil Rights Movement.

Frederick Douglass

 

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449
.D75
L36
1998

electronic book

Frederick Douglass freedom’s voice, 1818-1845

Lampe, Gregory P.

East Lansing, Mich. : Michigan State University Press, [1998]

xvi, 350 p. ; 24 cm.

This work in the MSU Press Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series chronicles Frederick Douglass’s preparation for a career in oratory, his emergence as an abolitionist lecturer in 1841, and his development and activities as a public speaker and reformer from 1841 to 1845. Lampe’s meticulous scholarship overturns much of the conventional wisdom about this phase of Douglass’s life and career uncovering new information about his experiences as a slave and as a fugitive; it provokes a deeper and richer understanding of this renowned orator’s emergence as an important voice in the crusade to end slavery. Contrary to conventional wisdom, Douglass was well prepared to become a full-time lecturer for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society in 1841. His emergence as an eloquent voice from slavery was not as miraculous as scholars have led us to believe. Lampe begins by tracing Douglass’s life as slave in Maryland and as fugitive in New Bedford, showing that experiences gained at this time in his life contributed powerfully to his understanding of rhetoric and to his development as an orator. An examination of his daily oratorical activities from the time of his emergence in Nantucket in 1841 until his departure for England in 1845 dispels many conventional beliefs surrounding this period, especially the belief that Douglass was under the wing of William Lloyd Garrison. Lampe’s research shows that Douglass was much more outspoken and independent than previously thought and that at times he was in conflict with white abolitionists.  Included in this work is a complete itinerary of Douglass’s oratorical activities, correcting errors and omissions in previously published works, as well as two newly discovered complete speech texts, never before published.