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African Americans Civil rights Building Building United States Juvenile literature Engineering Engineering United States Juvenile literature Indians of North America Government relations Madam Walker, C. J 1867-1919 Skyscrapers Skyscrapers United States Juvenile literature United StatesSummary: Through centuries of suffering, slavery, inequality, discrimination, segregation, and racist violence, African Americans have endured, resisted, fought, and, increasingly over time, won many battles. These victories were propelled by a groundswell of grassroots action, but they were also motivated and organized by courageous and inspirational leadership. Journalists, abolitionists, educators,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: Imagine a world in which gospel, the blues, jazz, R & B, and rock 'n' roll didn't exist. These indigenous American musical forms are the product of, and a moving expression of the African American experience. Musical geniuses and innovators like Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, B.B. King, and Jimi Hendrix turned individual and collective histories of suffering and injustice into...
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: From the top of Everest to the deepest recesses of previously unexplored caves, from the heart of the sea to the far reaches of space, African American explorers and adventurers have helped chart the unknown, push the boundaries of the frontier, scale the heights, and shoot for the stars. With profiles of courageous and pioneering figures like Arctic explorer Matthew Alexander Henson, the Lewis...
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRSummary: Though often fighting for a country that did not recognize their rights or even their humanity, African Americans have fought courageously in every American war. Even though they often knew they would return to civilian lives of limited opportunities and unequal treatment, they served their nation with conviction and distinction. This volume offers inspiring profiles of African American service...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 AFRLambert, Valerie
Summary: "This work provides an essential national-level look at an intriguing and impactful form of Indigenous resistance. It describes, in great detail, the continuing assaults made on Native peoples and tribal sovereignty in the United States during the twenty-first century, and it sketches the visions of the future that Indians at the BIA and in Indian Country have been crafting for themselves"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.897 LAMJosephson, Judith Pinkerton.
Summary: Examines the life and accomplishments of Jesse Owens, African-American Olympic gold medalist in track and field.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1997
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB OWENS JOSSita, Lisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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Summary: A biography of the wife of President Herbert Hoover, following her life from birth to death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB HOOVER COLPress, Petra.
Summary: Explores the culture of the peoples who lived along the coastline from what is now southern Alaska to northern California, focusing on their life before contact with Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.4 PRESita, Lisa
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.4 SITKachur, Matthew
Summary: Covers such topics as the beginning of slavery in North America, the development of slavery in Central and South America, the Commercial Revolution and its impact on slavery, and the international slave trade.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Facts On File 2006
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 306.3 KACKenyon, Amy Maria.
Contents: Rumors from a motel in Detroit -- Mapping postwar space and culture -- Spaces of detachment -- Critiques of suburban conformity -- Everyday life and suburban estrangement -- The city that would not go away -- Postwar space and culture in context.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENKing, Thomas
Summary: "In The Truth About Stories, Native novelist and scholar Thomas King explores how stories shape who we are and how we understand and interact with other people. From creation stories to personal experiences, historical anecdotes to social injustices, racist propaganda to works of contemporary Native literature, King probes Native culture's deep ties to storytelling." "Thomas King weaves events...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KING, THOMAS KINKolosov, Jacqueline A.
Summary: Examines the life of the nineteenth century feminist, Victoria Woodhull, who was a selected as the presidential candidate for the Equal Rights Party in 1872.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morgan Reynolds 2000
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WOODHULL MCLBall, Erica
Summary: Madam C. J. Walker-reputed to be America's first self-made woman millionaire-has long been celebrated for her rags-to-riches story. Born to former slaves in the Louisiana Delta in the aftermath of the Civil War, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty, Walker spent the first decades of her life as a laundress, laboring in conditions that paralleled the lives of countless poor and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WALKER, C.J. BALSita, Lisa
Summary: Describes the Native American tribes of the Northeast and their history and culture both before and after contact with Europeans.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Courage Books 1997
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Summary: Discusses lions, their African habitat, food, and behavior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Ipcizade 2008Coleman, Jon T.
Contents: Howls, snarls, and musket shots : saying "this is mine" in colonial New England -- Beasts of lore : how stories turned fearsome monsters into skulking criminals -- Wolf bullets with adders' tongues : how to kill a wolf in colonial New England -- Predator to prey : wolves' journey through the northeastern woodlands -- Surrounded : fear and retribution in the northeastern forests -- Metaphors of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 599.773 COLPattskyn, Helen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clerisy Press 2012
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 133.1 PATBisson, Terry.
Summary: Presents the life and times of the African American preacher who led a slave revolt in Southampton County, Virginia in 1831, believing that God wanted him to free the slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TURGear, Kathleen O'Neal.
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [549]-552).
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Publisher / Publication Date: T. Doherty Associates 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GEARicciuti, Edward R.
Summary: Describes ten of the most unique and interesting skyscrapers in the United States including the Empire State Building, the Prudential Center, and the John Hancock Center.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackbirch Press 1998