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Artifacts from the American pastBall, Edward
Summary: Journalist Ball confronts the legacy of his family's slave-owning past, uncovering the story of the people, both black and white, who lived and worked on the Balls' South Carolina plantations. It is an unprecedented family record that reveals how the painful legacy of slavery continues to endure in America's collective memory and experience. Ball, a descendant of one of the largest slave-owning...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975.7915 BALBall, Edward
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BALPryor, Shawn
Summary: "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins across the South, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2022