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Stories of the spirit of justice

By Tisby, Jemar, author, illustrator.

Genre Biographies.

Audience Youth 0-15 years

Published [2025] by Zonderkidz, Grand Rapids, MI

ISBN 9780310145592

Bib Id 1483794

Description xvi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

We are living in the Civil Rights Movement of our day. But the challenges of the present call us to remember the past. Throughout American history, there has always been a small but resilient group of people who, motivated by their faith, resisted oppression and pushed for greater equality and liberty for all. From well-known figures like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rosa Parks, and Harriet Tubman, to those time has nearly forgotten, all of these people tapped into an abiding spirit of justice to pursue the dignity of all people. ...
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cam a22 i 4500

LCCN

2024946280

ISBN

9780310145592 (hardcover) $19.00

0310145597

Call #

J 323.11 T

Author

Tisby, Jemar, author, illustrator.

Title

Stories of the spirit of justice

Varying Form of Title

Spirit of justice

Publication Information

[2025] by Zonderkidz, Grand Rapids, MI :

Description

xvi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Summary

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-202).

Contents

Author's note -- Introduction: The spirit of justice -- The colonial era (1492-1765). Anthony, Isabella, and William ; John Punch ; Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa -- The Revolutionary era (1765-1783). Mum Bett/Elizabeth Freeman ; Phillis Wheatley ; Prince Hall ; Jean Baptiste Point du Sable ; Benjamin Banneker -- The abolitionist movement (1780-1870). Pierre Toussaint Louverture ; David Walker ; Anna Murray Douglass ; Paul Cuffe -- The Civil War and Reconstruction (1861-1877). Robert Smalls ; The Emancipation Proclamation and Juneteenth ; Harriet Tubman ; Elizabeth Keckley -- The Jim Crow era (1877 to late 1960s). Elias Camp Morris ; William J. Seymour ; Anna Julia Cooper ; Charles Hamilton Houston -- The civil rights era (late 1940s-late 1960s). Ella Baker ; Fannie Lou Hamer ; Martin Luther King Jr. ; Coretta Scott King ; Anna Arnold Hedgeman ; Prathia Hall ; Unita Blackwell ; Dorothy Height -- The late twentieth century (early 1970s-1999). James Cone ; Shirley Chisholm ; Myrlie Evers-Williams ; Sister Thea Bowman ; Toni Morrison -- The early twenty-first century (2000-today). The creatives ; The activists ; The ministers -- Conclusion.

Audience

Grades 3-6.

Subject

African American civil rights workers--Biography Juvenile literature.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography Juvenile literature.

Civil rights workers--United States--Juvenile literature.

Social reformers--United States--Juvenile literature.

African Americans--Biography Juvenile literature.

African American civil rights workers--Biography.

Civil rights workers--United States--Biography.

Genre/Form

Biographies