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King : a life

Eig, Jonathan, author.

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2025

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323 EIG

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John Lewis : a life

Greenberg, David, 1968- author.

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2024

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923.273 LEW

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Medgar & Myrlie [CD] : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America

Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- author, narrator.

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2024

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323.1196073 REI

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Medgar & Myrlie : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America

Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- author.

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2024

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Medgar & Myrlie [large print] : Medgar Evers and the love story that awakened America

Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- author.

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2024

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Going to Mars [DVD video] : the Nikki Giovanni project

Stephenson, Michèle, film director.

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The small and the mighty : twelve unsung Americans who changed the course of history, from the founding to the civil rights movement

McMahon, Sharon, 1977- author.

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2024

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To boldly go : how Nichelle Nichols and Star trek helped advance civil rights

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2023

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Our secret society : Mollie Moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement

Ford, Tanisha C., author.

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2023

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Necessary trouble [CD] : growing up at midcentury

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King : a life

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An angel in Sodom : Henry Gerber and the birth of the gay rights movement

Elledge, Jim, 1950- author.

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King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968.

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