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African American life series African American lives African Americans African Americans, voices of triumph African-American biographies Essential library of American wars Facts on File library of American history Facts on File library of American literature Pioneering African Americans The Library of American comicsBall, Erica
Summary: Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, C.J. BALVaughan, Alden T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1975
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SMISusienka, Kristen
Summary: "Kamala Harris is one of today's most prominent political figures. During her time in Congress, she has been an inspiration to many, advocating for equal rights, immigration and criminal justice reform, and a more united country. In the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, she's a contender to become the first female U.S. president. However, her story is about more than its most recent...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HARSantella, Andrew.
Contents: The pastor's son -- The education of a leader -- Montgomery -- A national leader -- The final years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINBreathed, Berke.
Summary: The second volume in a series that will publish the entire run of the acclaimed 1980s Bloom County comic strip.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BRECummings, Judy Dodge.
Summary: Learn about the American Civil War.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.7 CUMGray, Harold
Contents: v. 1. Will tomorrow ever come? daily comics, 1924-1927
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Publisher / Publication Date: IDW Pub. 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 GRAHamen, Susan E.
Summary: Provides information on events leading up to the war, important battles and campaigns, political and military leaders, and the effects of the war on society and international relations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Contents: A bold plan -- A divided nation -- The United States steps in -- The horrors of war -- The tide turns -- The war moves north -- The Chinese intervene -- Shattered forces -- A long, bitter end.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 951.904 MOOKeoke, Emory Dean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.004 KEOWaldman, Carl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 WALGitlin, Marty
Summary: This book explores the causes of and events leading to the Vietnam War. Easy-to-read, engaging text discusses major battles and key figures of the war and the technology and weapons used during the war. Through primary source quotes, readers will discover the experiences of soldiers and people on the home front. Readers will learn what impact the Vietnam War had on US history and the country's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 959.704 GITSummary: Listening to our Past is a piecing together of the family histories of four of the series participants. The episode explores the post-World War I “Great Migration” of African-Americans from the South to northern cities like Detroit and Chicago, as well as those who stayed in the South during the period of Jim Crow segregation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. also begins an intriguing examination of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Cooper, Desiree
Summary: "Six-year-old Jax can't wait to leave Detroit and spend a week with his grandparents in coastal Virginia, where he's sure he'll be spoiled with the kinds of special things he enjoys at home: toys, movies, and hamburgers. As he dreams of the adventures he'll have, his PopPop has other ideas. He fills their days with timeless summer fun-crabbing, shucking corn, and counting fireflies. Illustrated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2022
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1 available in New Youth Materials, Call number: JE COOQuinn, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts On File 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 803 QUIGrayson, Robert
Summary: "This book explores the causes of and events leading to the American Revolutionary War. Easy-to-read, engaging text discusses major battles and key figures of the war and the technology and weapons used during the war. Through primary source quotes, readers will discover the experiences of soldiers and people on the home front. Readers will learn what impact the Revolutionary War had on US...
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Publishing Co. 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 GRAPratt, Mary K.
Summary: Examines the historical and cultural events preceding and following the First World War, along with the social implications and technological and strategic advances of the time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.3 PRASummary: Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, R & B, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix turned individual and collective histories of suffering and injustice into...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census—the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property—to trace his subjects’ lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Josephson, Judith Pinkerton.
Summary: Examines the life and accomplishments of Jesse Owens, African-American Olympic gold medalist in track and field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1997
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB OWENS JOSSummary: Through centuries of suffering, slavery, inequality, discrimination, segregation, and racist violence, African Americans have endured, resisted, fought, and, increasingly over time, won many battles. These victories were propelled by a groundswell of grassroots action, but they were also motivated and organized by courageous and inspirational leadership. Journalists, abolitionists, educators,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018