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Summary: "In this in-depth biography, readers will learn all about W. E. B. Du Bois and his life's work to fight for racial equality. They'll discover the roles he played in the Niagara Movement and the NAACP and understand how his ideas sometimes put him at odds with other reformers of the day. An informative timeline offers insight into the context of Du Bois' life and work. Eye-catching photographs...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 DU BDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: The planting colonies -- The farming colonies -- The trading colonies -- The period of revolution, 1774-1787 -- The federal convention, 1787 -- Toussaint L'Ouverture and anti-slavery effort, 1787-1806 -- The period of attempted suppression, 1807-1825 -- The international status of the slave-trade, 1783-1862 -- The rise of the cotton kingdom, 1820-1850 -- The final crisis, 1850-1870 -- The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 326.1 DUBDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DU BOIS, W.E.B. DUBDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.8 DUBDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: The world and Africa -- Color and democracy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 DUBDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 DuBoisDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Contents: Africa, its geography, people and products -- The geography of Africa -- The people -- The languages -- The products -- Political divisions of Africa -- Independent Africa -- Partially independent Africa -- British protectorates in South Africa -- Mandated territories -- Belgian Africa -- French Africa -- Portuguese Africa -- Spanish Africa -- Italian Africa -- Africa, its place in modern...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 960 DUBDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BROWN, JOHN DUBLewis, David L.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DUBOIS, W.E.B LEWRiley, Rochelle
Summary: That They Lived: African Americans Who Changed the World features Riley's grandson, Caleb, and Lola photographed in timeless black and white, dressed as important individuals such as business owners, educators, civil rights leaders, and artists, alongside detailed biographies that begin with the figures as young children who had the same ambitions, fears, strengths, and obstacles facing them...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 RIL1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 RIL
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J810 RILKendi, Ibram X
Summary: Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nation Books 2016
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Summary: "Join us on a journey across borders, through time and even through space to meet 52 icons of color from the past and present in a celebration of achievement. Meet figureheads, leaders, and pioneers such as Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela, and Rosa Parks, as well as cultural trailblazers and sporting heroes, including Stevie Wonder, Oprah Winfrey, and Serena Williams. Discover how their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wide Eyed Editions 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 WILSummary: A collection of 127 first-person narratives by writers such as Richard Harding Davis, Edith Wharton, John Reed, Henry Morgenthau, Leslie Davis, Jane Addams, Emma Goldman, Victor Chapman, Edmond Genet, Hervey Allen, Ellen N. La Motte, Mary Borden, Carrie Chapman Catt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Jessie Redmon Fauset, and many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.4 WORWorth, Richard
Summary: The Harlem Renaissance was like a magnificent fireworks display; it was colorful, brilliant, and in a few moments, it was over. This was the first time African Americans had led a cultural movement and the first time that white Americans had paid attention to their achievements. Through striking images and fascinating details, this book examines the origins of the Harlem Renaissance, especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 974.7 WORRay, Victor (Victor Erik)
Summary: "From renowned scholar Dr. Victor Ray, On Critical Race Theory seeks to explain the centrality of race in American history and politics, and how the often mischaracterized intellectual movement became a political necessity. Dr. Ray draws upon the radical thinking of giants such as Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ida B. Wells, and W.E.B. Du Bois to clearly trace the foundations of Critical Race...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 RAYGates, Henry Louis
Summary: "A magnificent, foundational reckoning with how Black Americans have used the written word to define and redefine themselves, in resistance to the lies of racism and often in heated disagreement with each other, over the course of the country's history. Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 908.996 GATRichardson, Robert D.
Summary: Biographer Richardson has written a moving portrait of James--pivotal member of the Metaphysical Club and author of The Varieties of Religious Experience. The biography, ten years in the making, draws on unpublished letters, journals, and family records. Richardson paints extraordinary scenes from what James himself called the "buzzing blooming confusion" of his life, beginning with childhood,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JAMES, WILLIAM RICSummary: This collection of 80 dramatic firsthand writings by Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells, and others brings to life the struggle for racial justice from the Civil War to World War. A vital resource for the teaching of the history of race in America that traces the ascendency of white supremacy after Reconstruction--and the outspoken resistance to it led by Black Americans and their allies. W.E.B....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 JIMPeart-Smith, Paul
Summary: "There is a growing urgency, in classrooms as well as in publishing at large, to encompass the African American experience, African American thought and culture. Much of the recent headway has been made in the superhero framework, including Black Panther, but not only there. The tremendous success-in sales and prizes-of March, the trilogy based upon the life of Congressman John Lewis, is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rutgers University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 PEAHuff, Peter A.
Summary: This guide provides an overview essay and approximately 50 alphabetically arranged reference entries that explores the background and significance of atheism and agnosticism in modern society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABC-CLIO, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC 2021
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Summary: "In March 1906, American soldiers on the island of Jolo in the southern Philippines surrounded and killed 1000 local men, women, and children, known as Moros, on top of an extinct volcano. The so-called 'Battle of Bud Dajo' was hailed as a triumph over an implacable band of dangerous savages, a "brilliant feat of arms" according to President Theodore Roosevelt. Some contemporaries, including...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2024
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
Summary: A definitive edition of the landmark book that forever changed our understanding of the Civil War's aftermath and the legacy of racism in America. Upon publication in 1935, W.E.B. Du Bois's now classic Black Reconstruction offered a revelatory new assessment of Reconstruction--and of American democracy itself. One of the towering African American thinkers and activists of the twentieth century,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 2021