Yannuzzi, Della A.
Summary: Traces the life of the first African-American woman to go into space, from her childhood in Chicago through her astronaut training and first spaceflight to life after working with NASA.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JEMISON YANSummary: This dynamic and hip collective biography presents 44 of America's greatest movers and shakers, from Frederick Douglass to Aretha Franklin to Barack Obama.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dreamscape Media, LLC 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD 920 FIEDrotning, Phillip T.
Summary: Stories of fourteen blacks who determined to escape from the ghetto and succeeded.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cowles Book Co. 1970
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Summary: An introduction to a great civil rights leader.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 1993
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 KINGParks, Rosa
Summary: The African American woman whose acts of civil disobedience led to the 1956 Supreme Court order to desegregate buses in Montgomery, Alabama, explains what she did and why
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2000
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR RED PARO'Connor, Jim.
Summary: Presents a biography of the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947. Also traces the history of all-black baseball teams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1989
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Summary: Describes the life, work, and legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr., proponent of change through non-violence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: F. Watts 1983
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Summary: The autobiography of the pioneer for racial and sexual equality discusses her years as a slave in upstate New York and describes the spiritual revelations that turned her into an abolitionist.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage Books 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TRUTHE, SOJOURNER TRUX, Malcolm
Summary: Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells his life story to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 X, MALCOM XDouglass, Frederick
Summary: Presents the autobiography of Douglass, an American slave, and his journey out of mental and physical bondage.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1991
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.8 DOUMurray, Pauli
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper & Row 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MURRAY, PAULI MURPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ELLINGTON PINElliott, Lawrence.
Summary: A biography of the Afro-American scientist whose agricultural research revolutionized the economy of the South.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Prentice-Hall 1966
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CARMeltzer, Milton
Summary: Tells the story of a leading poet of the Harlem Renaissance during the 1920s who devoted his life to writing about the black experience in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millbrook Press 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUGHES, LANGSTON MELPetry, Ann Lane
Summary: A biography of the famous woman who worked to free her people on the Underground Railroad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crowell 1955
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Summary: "A nonfiction account of a group of determined Black Americans who created a flying club and built their own airfield on Chicago's South Side in the period between World Wars I and II"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2024