Kyles, Cedric
Summary: "Cedric The Entertainer's debut novel Flipping Boxcars is a valentine to close-knit black families and tightly woven communities during the Depression and World War II. The story is also an homage to Cedric's grandfather, who in this tale emerges as Babe. He is a charismatic and widely loved man. He is also a gambler, whose gift of gab often gets him out of tricky situations, which is often....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Amistad 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CEDIyer, Vijay
Summary: Holding it down: the veterans' dreams project is the result of three-year collaboration between Vijay Iyer and poet/librettist Mike Ladd, with veterans of color from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is also the culmination of a trilogy of works spanning more than a decade of American life. For Holding It Down, Iyer and Ladd explore the experiences of veterans of these wars, in particular...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ IYECline, David P.
Summary: "Journalists began to call the Korean War 'the Forgotten War' even before it ended. Without a doubt, the most neglected story of this already-neglected war is that of African Americans who served just two years after Harry S. Truman ordered the desegregation of the military. Twice Forgotten draws on oral histories of Black Korean War veterans to recover the story of their contributions to the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.904 CLIMorrison, Toni.
Summary: "The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORMorrison, Toni.
Summary: "The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Morrison 2012Weisgarber, Ann.
Summary: It's 1917--14 years after Rachel and Isaac Dupree came to this unforgiving land--and Isaac is proud of his landed independence. But rain stops falling, cattle are dying, and supplies are gone. Desperate and exhausted, Rachel determines to do what's right for her children, herself, and her husband.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC WEIJordan, Hillary
Summary: Mudbound takes on prejudice in its myriad forms on a Mississippi Delta farm in 1946. City girl Laura McAllen attempts to raise her family despite questionable decisions made by her husband. Tensions continue to rise when her brother-in-law and the son of a family of sharecroppers both return from WWII as changed men bearing the scars of combat.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC JORWeisgarber, Ann.
Summary: Agreeing to a marriage of convenience involving a share of land granted by the Homestead Act, an African-American boardinghouse owner's son and a hired woman stake a claim and begin a pioneer life together in the South Dakota Badlands.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WEICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WEIJordan, Hillary
Summary: In 1946, city-bred Laura McAllan is trying to raise her children on her husband's Mississippi Delta farm when two young men return from the war to work the land, Jamie McAllan, Laura's brother-in-law, and Ronsel Jackson, eldest son of the black sharecroppers on the farm.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JORMorrison, Toni.
Summary: "The story of a Korean war veteran on a quest to save his younger sister"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Morrison 2012Faison, Frankie
Summary: After police are called to check on Kenneth Chamberlain, an African American veteran with bipolar disorder, the encounter leads to a fatal shooting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Allied Vaughn 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Mississippi Delta of the 1940s, two farming families one of white landholders, and one of Black tenant farmers are bound by the unforgiving soil they share as they struggle to survive amid the upheavals of World War II and the poisonous hatred of the Jim Crow South. Each family sends a young man off to battle; when they return home, scarred, and find a common bond, the community is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Jordan, Hillary
Summary: In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JORCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC JorZoboi, Ibi Aanu
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist, a biography in verse and prose of science fiction visionary Octavia Butler. Acclaimed novelist Ibi Zoboi illuminates the young life of the visionary storyteller Octavia E. Butler in poems and prose. Born into the Space Race, the Red Scare, and the dawning Civil Rights Movement, Butler expereinced an American childhood...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BUTJones, Amy Robin
Summary: A biography of the African-American educator Mary McLeod Bethune, discussing her role in creating opportunities for African-Americans in education and government.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BETSánchez, Erika L.
Summary: "Julia no es la hija mexicana perfecta. Ese era el rol de su hermana Olga. Olga no fue a la universidad, se quedó en casa para cuidar a sus padres, limpiar la casa y trabajar a medio tiempo. Julia tiene grandes sueños y no quiere formar parte del camino de su hermana mayor. Pero un solo error, que ocurre mientras enviaba un mensaje de texto al mismo tiempo que cruzaba la calle más concurrida de...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Español 2018
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Foreign Language, Call number: 468 SPANISH SANCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH SANFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISOnwuachi, Kwame
Summary: "A cookbook celebrating the food of the African diaspora, from Nigeria and Ethiopia to the Bronx, the Caribbean, and the American South, from the James Beard Award-winning author of Notes from a Young Black Chef"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.59296 ONWLong, Michael G.
Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUDuster, Michelle
Summary: "An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells-who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader-as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WELPinkney, Andrea Davis
Summary: "When young Tybre Faw discovers Congressman John Lewis and his heroic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in the fight for the right to vote -- Tybre is determined to meet him. Tybre's two grandmothers take him on the seven-hour drive to Selma, Alabama, where Lewis invites Tybre to join him in the annual memorial walk across the Bridge. And so begins a most amazing friendship! In rich, poetic...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022