American Mothers Committee
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Publisher / Publication Date: C. E. Tuttle Co. 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 MOTBalis, Andrea
Summary: "A cutting-edge look into a pivotal moment in U.S. history: McCarthy's infamous "witch hunt" for communists during the 1950's Red Scare. At the cusp of the Cold War, Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As Senator Joe McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down "communists" in the U.S., citizens grew terrified of being accused, so...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.9 BALSummary: When Emily Crany refuses to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee chairman, Ray Salwen, she's blacklisted and immediately fired from her job. But when she stumbles upon Salwen's nefarious plot to smuggle Nazi war criminals into the U.S., she enlists the help of an FBI agent to help her bring Salwen to justice ... before he brings an end to them!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOUSummary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJSummary: Documents the rise of Dalton Trumbo's career in Hollywood and his subsequent public humiliation for being among the 'Hollywood Ten' blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee in the 1940s for communist associations. Exiled and penniless, he wrote under various pseudonyms, and even won an Academy Award. Dalton stood for the American value and right of free expression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRURussell, Mark
Summary: "It's 1953. While the United States is locked in a nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, the gay Southern playwright known as Snagglepuss is the toast of Broadway. But success has made him a target. As he plans for his next hit play, Snagglepuss becomes the focus of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. And when powerful forces align to purge show business of its most subversive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DC Comics 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.5 RUSCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 RUSSummary: Five years have passed since the Ofunehiki, and Shioshishio's hibernation. Itaru and Akari now have a son, Akira. Sayu and Miuna, now 14, attend Mihama Middle School. And all the while, Chisaki continues to worry about the whereabouts of Hikari and the others while living with Tsumugu and his grandfather. One day, an unexpected discovery leads everyone to revisit the events of the Ofunehiki and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME LULAmerica.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2001
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD PM AmericaSummary: Salt of the Earth is a feature film based on the 1950s strike by zinc miners in New Mexico. Hollywood Ten is a documentary chronicling the lives and work of ten filmmakers blacklisted by The House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pioneer Entertainment (USA) 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SALSmothers Brothers
Contents: Pretoria -- Tom Dooley -- Chocolate -- Laredo -- Daniel Boone -- The saga of John Henry -- Gnus -- Crabs walk sideways -- Jenny Brown -- The military lovers -- Mediocre Fred -- Mom always liked you best -- You can call me stupid -- I talk to the trees -- Hangman -- Cabbage -- Michael, row the boat ashore -- You didn't come in.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: disc 1: Killer diller blues / written by Minnie Lawlers (Alabama Shakes) (2:12) -- On the road again / written by J.B. Jones and Will Shade (Nas, vocals) (2:00) -- Candy man / written by Rev. Gary Davis (Blind Boy Paxton, vocals and guitar) (2:53) -- 2 fingers of whiskey / written by Elton John and Bernie Taupin (Elton John, vocals and piano ; Jack White, vocals and guitar) (2:52) -- The coo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lo-Max/Columbia 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC AMESummary: Due to the closure of their middle school, four students from the sea must attend middle school on land, despite the growing tensions between the Sea Village and their neighbors on land. While getting used to their new lives, these four, along with their new friend from school, plan to put on an Ofunehiki, a festival traditionally organized by the leaders of the two villages, in an attempt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Offers a wide-ranging anthology of Palestinian writers and artists. This collection constitutes a collective effort to organize and center Palestinian voices in the ongoing struggle. As political discourse shifts toward futurism as a means of reimagining a better way of living, beyond the violence and limitations of colonialism, Light in Gaza imagines what the future of Gaza could be, while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Haymarket Books 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: disc 1. Casey Jones (Billy Murray) -- Casey Jones (Fiddlin' John Carson) -- Southern Casey Jones (Jesse James) -- Steamboat Bill (Arthur Collins) -- Casey and Bill (Earl McDonald's Original Louisville Jug Band) -- Steamboat Bill boogie (Delmore Bros.) -- Red wing (Frank C. Stanley & Henry Burr) -- Red wing (Doc Williams & the Border Riders) -- Just break the news to mother (George J. Gaskin) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY PROBathers
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BATContents: Pass around the bottle (Ernest Stoneman) -- Lorena (Blue Ridge Mountain Singers) -- Johnson boy (Grant Brothers & their Music) -- Dixie (Red Mountain Trio) -- The faded coat of blue (Buell Kazee) -- He is coming to us dead (G.B. Grayson, fiddle, vocals ; Henry Whitter, guitar) -- Sweet bunch of violets (Ernest Stoneman) -- In those cruel slavery days (Ward & Winfield) -- The year of Jubilo...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD FOLK BUSPlatt, Christine A.
Summary: "It's a surprise visit! Ana & Andrew are excited when Grandma comes to visit. While she is there, the family tours the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and learns about important African American achievements"--Page [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calico Kid, an imprint of Magic Wagon 2019
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE PLAMeters
Contents: You've got to change (you've got to reform) -- Stay away -- Birds -- The flower song -- Soul island -- Do the dirt -- Smiling -- Lonesome and unwanted people -- Gettin' funkier all the time -- Cabbage Alley -- People say -- Love is for me -- Just kissed my baby -- What'cha say -- Jungle man -- Hey pocky a-way -- It ain't no use -- Loving you is on my mind -- Africa -- Out in the country -- Fire...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Entertainment Company 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A rare and personal portrait of a boy who becomes a musician, a husband, a rock star, a father and a songwriter whose words have touched millions. Cobain's story unfolds through his own narrative assembled from more than 25 hours of audiotaped conversations, never before made public.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2008
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC KURContents: Disc One: Sexual healilng--Time after time--If you don't know me by now--I go crazy--Can't we try--Total eclipse of the heart--Kiss and say goodbye--Me and Mrs. Jones--Everytime you go away--Shake you down--After the love has gone--Longer
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Music
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK BODContents: We have it in Africa -- Oba Adele -- The wind in a frolic (Nigerian Union Rhythm Group) -- Iku Koni Payin -- Ibikunle Alakija (Ayinde Bakare & his Meranda Orchestra) -- Omo Laso -- Calabar-O -- Emi Wa Wa Lowo Re -- Iwa d'Arekere -- Ominira -- The memorial of Chief J.K. Randle (Nigerian Union Rhythm Group) -- Mofi Ajobi Seyin -- Unity ; Oratido Soso (Nigerian Union Rhythm Group) -- Ayami -- Oba...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Honest Jons Records 2006
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1 available in NEW Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/WORLDBEAT LONTeresa, Mother
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Publisher / Publication Date: Servant Publications 1993