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Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
On May 4th 1970, the National Guard gunned down unarmed college students protesting the Vietnam War at Kent State University in Ohio. In a deadly barrage of sixty-seven shots, four students were killed and nine wounded. It was the day America turned guns on its own children--a shocking event burned into our national memory. A few days prior, ten year old Derf Backderf saw those same Guardsmen patrolling his nearby hometown, sent in by the governor...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
vii, 183 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Ghetto Klown, celebrated performer Leguizamo lays bare his early years in blue collar Queens. He brings us onto the sets of his films opposite stars such as Al Pacino and Patrick Swayze and with directors such as Baz Lurhrmann and Brian De Palma, while also opening up about his offstage life in love and marriage.
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis has been a resounding moral voice in the quest for equality for more than 50 years. In March, he shares his memories of the Civil Rights Movement, reliving the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge from a past of clenched fists into a future of outstretched hands.
Author
Series
March trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Congressman John Lewis, one of the key figures of the civil rights movement, brings the lessons of history to vivid life for a new generation, urgently relevant for today's world. In this conclusion to the March trilogy, he details the surpassing courage, sacrifice, and revolutionary non-violence that transformed American society in the 1960s.