Bridges, Ruby

Summary: Civil rights activist Ruby Bridges--who, at the age of six, was the first African American to integrate an all-white elementary school in New Orleans--shares her story through text and historical photographs, offering a powerful call to action.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2020

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2 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BRI

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BRIDGES BRI

Obama, Barack

Summary: Now adapted for young adults, the #1 New York times best-selling memoir offers an intimate look at Barack Obama's early days, tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press 2021

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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 OBA

Ford, Dionne

Summary: "One-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are related to the slave masters who bought and sold their ancestors. In other words, one-third of Black Americans descended from slavery are descended also from sexual exploitation. Dionne Ford, whose great-grandmother was the last of six children born to a Louisiana cotton broker called the Colonel and the enslaved woman he received as a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bold Type Books 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FORD, DIONNE FOR

Coates, Ta-Nehisi

Summary: "We were eight years in power" was the lament of Reconstruction-era black politicians as the American experiment in multiracial democracy ended with the return of white supremacist rule in the South. Now Ta-Nehisi Coates explores the tragic echoes of that history in our own time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that fueled the election of the man...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: One World 2017

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.932 COA

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1 available in Adult, Call number: B COATES COA

Obama, Barack.

Contents: Originally published: New York : Times Books, c1995.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Three Rivers Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OBAMA, BARACK OBA

Ifill, Gwen.

Summary: Veteran journalist Ifill sheds new light on the impact of Barack Obama's presidential victory and introduces the emerging African American politicians forging a new path to political power. Ifill argues that the Black political structure formed during the Civil Rights movement is giving way to a generation who are the direct beneficiaries of the struggles of the 1960s. She offers detailed...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2009

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1 available in Stacks, Call number: 973.932092 Ifi

Obama, Barack.

Summary: "In New York ... Barack Obama learns that his father--a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man--has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey--first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2005

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 OBAMA, BARAK OBA