Bell-Scott, Patricia.
Summary: Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did for justice and freedom.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.917 BELDuane, Anna Mae
Summary: "Educated for Freedom" explores the story of two fugitive schoolboys who grew up to change a nation"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DUABell-Scott, Patricia.
Summary: "Describes the unlikely friendship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Pauli Murray, a granddaughter of a mixed race slave and a lesbian, who became a lawyer and civil rights pioneer, and the important work they each did, taking stands for justice and freedom,"--NoveList.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.917 BELStewart, Jeffrey C.
Summary: "A tiny, fastidiously dressed man emerged from Black Philadelphia around the turn of the century to mentor a generation of young artists including Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and Jacob Lawrence and call them the New Negro--the creative African Americans whose art, literature, music, and drama would inspire Black people to greatness. In The New Negro : The Life of Alain Locke, Jeffrey...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LOCKE, ALAIN STERosenberg, Rosalind
Summary: "Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant portrait of a figure who played pivotal roles in both the modern civil rights and women's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURRAY, PAULI ROSKilmeade, Brian
Summary: "When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 KILDu Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DU BOIS, W.E.B. DUBWilderson, Frank B.
Summary: "In the tradition of Edward Said's Orientalism and Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks, Afropessimism is an unparalleled account of the non-analogous experience of being Black. A seminal work that strikingly combines groundbreaking philosophy with searing flights of memoir, Afropessimism presents the tenets of an increasingly influential intellectual movement that theorizes blackness through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton and Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WILDERSON, FRANK WILPrice, Hugh B
Summary: "People who believe a problem can be solved tend to get busy solving it," William Raspberry wrote in the Washington Post in July 1994. "Hugh B. Price is a believer." This comment on Price's inaugural keynote address as head of the National Urban League proved prescient. During his tenure as president and CEO from 1994 to 2003, Price conceived and launched its Campaign for African-American...
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Publisher / Publication Date: John F. Blair 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PRICE, HUGH B. PRIJefferson, Margo
Summary: "Stunning for her daring originality, the author of Negroland gives us what she calls "a temperamental autobiography," comprised of visceral, intimate fragments that fuse criticism and memoir. Margo Jefferson constructs a nervous system with pieces of different lengths and tone, conjoining arts writing (poem, song, performance) with life writing (history, psychology). The book's structure is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JEFFERSON, MARGO JEFZoboi, 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2022
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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
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BETMcCullough, David G
Summary: Relates the story of the American artists, writers, and doctors who traveled to Paris in the nineteenth century, fell in love with the city and its people, and changed America through what they learned there.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.0092 MCCHill, Laban Carrick
Summary: Explores the literary, artistic, and intellectual creativity of the Harlem Renaissance and discusses the lives and work of Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and other notable figures of the era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company Books for Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 810.9 HILBracks, Lean'tin L.
Summary: "Updated and revised for the first time in over a decade, the second edition of African American Almanac: 400 Years of Black Excellence is a comprehensive and inspiring book that celebrates the African American experience, highlighting the extraordinary people and their profound influence on American history. It covers a wide range of topics, including literature, art, music, the civil rights...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Visible Ink Press 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 BRAShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 920 SHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Space ShetterlyCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE SHELong, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 RUSDuster, 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WELWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: Traces legal clerk Arturo Schomburg's efforts to curate a collection of African books, letters, music, and art.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SCHWatson, Renee
Summary: "A biography of Oprah Winfrey, part of the She Persisted chapter book series"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WINSmith, Sherri L.
Summary: "Travel back in time to the 1920s and 1930s to the sounds of jazz in nightclubs and the 24-hours-a-day bustle of the famous Black neighborhood of Harlem in uptown Manhattan. It was a dazzling time when there was an outpouring of the arts of African Americans--the poetry of Langston Hughes, the novels of Zora Neale Hurston, the sculptures of Augusta Savage, and that brand-new music called jazz...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SMICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 974.7 SMICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J900 WHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Blk His What SmithWorth, Richard
Summary: The Harlem Renaissance was like a magnificent fireworks display; it was colorful, brilliant, and in a few moments, it was over. This was the first time African Americans had led a cultural movement and the first time that white Americans had paid attention to their achievements. Through striking images and fascinating details, this book examines the origins of the Harlem Renaissance, especially...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Publishing Group 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 974.7 WORGolkar, Golriz
Summary: "Describes the life and accomplishments of American civil rights champion, statesman, and politician John Lewis. Additional features to aid comprehension include a table of contents, informative captions and sidebars, a phonetic glossary, a time line, a Think-About-It section, and an index"--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 LEWDray, Philip.
Summary: Presents a life of the African American journalist who was born a slave and went on to become a respected teacher and journalist, and who is best remembered for her campaign through her writings to eliminate lynching in the United States.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2008