Summary: "In prose, poetry, and graphic narrative, the contributors to this anthology tackle the questions of American identity and society, offering visions rooted in our history but attentive to our future"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Temple University 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 810 WHOSummary: A look at social change throughout history, as seen through the music, poetry, speeches, and manifestos of rebels, dissenters, and visionaries from our past - and present - including Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony, Bob Dylan, Langston Hughes, Chief Joseph, Muhammad Ali, along with unknown veterans, union workers, abolitionists, and many others never featured in high school textbooks....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Television Networks 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PEOScott-Heron, Gil
Contents: Paint it black (:31) -- Evolution (and flashback) (3:02) -- Free will (3:31) -- Whitey on the moon (1:45) -- The vulture (4:18) -- Small talk at 125th and Lenox (1:20) -- Billy Green is dead (1:30) -- Ain't no new thing (4:38) -- Get out of the ghetto blues (5:07) -- The King Alfred plan (2:48) -- No knock (2:11) -- Enough (4:12) -- Who'll pay reparations on my soul? (5:14) -- Home is where the...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: RCA Victor 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES SCOWilliams, Yohuru
Summary: "Six decades ago, on August 28, 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I Have a Dream" speech during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom--a moment often revered as the culmination of this Black-led protest. But at its core, the March on Washington was not a beautiful dream of future integration; it was a mass outcry for jobs and freedom NOW--not at some undetermined...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 303.48 WILSummary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Anderson, Carlotta R.
Summary: "All-American Anarchist chronicles the life and work of Joseph A. Labadie (1850-1933), Detroit's prominent labor organizer and one of early labor's most influential activists. A dynamic participant in the major social reform movements of the Gilded Age, Labadie was a central figure in the pervasive struggle for a new social order as the American Midwest underwent rapid industrialization at the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LABADIE, JO ANDSummary: Complacency has never been a hallmark of Latin American literature. As the 21st century dawned, many young writers-and even some who had fueled the Latin American Boom-grew disenchanted with the status quo. This program profiles the careers and the potential of literary artists at the forefront of the region's emerging narrative trends. Addressing the influence of the Crack Movement and the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008