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January
17, 2009
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My
Life with Martin Luther King Jr.
by Coretta Scott King
Coretta
Scott King describes growing up in rural Alabama, meeting her
husband, their family life, and their work in the civil rights
movement. This book is a gripping testimony to the dedication and
sacrifice of those who struggled to end racial discrimination and
oppression. Any reader will get a strong sense of the danger this
family walked through, lived in, and rose from to attain equality
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Dreams
from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
Get
to know the man who is going to be America's first African American
president in this wonderful book. The book follows president-elect
Obama through his childhood in Hawaii and Indonesia, his community
work in Chicago, and his journey to meet his father's family in
Kenya. Along the way, he has to come to terms with the death of his
absent father, being raised primarily by his white grandparents, and
learning the ropes of being a community organizer in inner city
Chicago.
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Life
Beyond Measure: Letter to My Great-Granddaughter
by Sidney Poitier
Written
by the founder of the Children's Defense Fund on its 35th
anniversary, Marian Wright Edelman offers a series of open letters
to parents, educators, and young people. She addresses the issue of
the millions of children silently suffering from abuse, abandonment
and poverty. Readers seriously concerned about the plight of
American children may find many concrete suggestions for action from
this book.
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