Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOJackson-Brown, Angela
Summary: "Opal Pruitt is just about to turn 18 in the oppressively hot summer of 1936. She works hard at her job, takes care of her beloved Granny, and dreams about boys with her cousin Lucille. The young black teenager's journey to adulthood will be forged in fire, though, as the Ku Klux Klan attacks her Colored Town neighborhood and she endures a vicious beating at the hands of an unknown white...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Nelson 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JACSummary: "Through this multilayered portrait of the American South, discover the soul and secrets of the region from folk artists, social justice reformers, jazz icons, renowned storytellers, pitmaster legends and more. Local stories, travel intel, and modern lore, including: The top meat and threes in the South; Blues musicians of note ; Intel from a legendary horse jockey ; Notable terrain formations...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wildsam Field Guides 2018
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.9 AMERICAN SOUTH WILContents: Sardinia (Alabama Sacred Harp Singers) -- Testimony on pioneer religion (D.N. Asher) -- Amazing grace (Howard Adams & Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church) -- Lonely tombs (Preston and Hobart Smith, Texas Gladden) -- Guide me, O Thou Great Jehovah (George Spangler and Congregation of Thornton Old Regular Baptist Church) -- The old gospel ship (Ruby Vass) -- The little family (Ollie Gilbert) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOUContents: Sheep, sheep, don'tcha know the road (Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers) -- The juice of the forbidden fruit (Neil Morris) -- Devil's dream (Hobart Smith) -- You got dimples in your jaws (Willie Jones and others) -- Drunken hiccups (Hobart Smith) -- You done tol' everybody (Fred McDowell) -- The house carpenter (Almeda Riddle) -- Straighten 'em (Bright Light Quartet) -- Corn dodgers (Neil...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997