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African Americans Civil rights African Americans History Children's songs Indians of North America Government relations Motion picture music Motion picture music Excerpts Slave trade North America History Juvenile literature Slavery United States Slavery United States History 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishing 2018
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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 LAMSimpson, Leanne Betasamosake
Summary: "In fierce prose and poetic fragments, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's 'Noopiming' braids together humor, piercing detail, and a deep, abiding commitment to Anishinaabe life to tell stories of resistance, love, and joy. Mashkawaji (they/them) lies frozen in the ice, remembering the sharpness of unmuted feeling from long ago, finding freedom and solace in isolated suspension. They introduce the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Minnesota Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMSummary: Listening to our Past is a piecing together of the family histories of four of the series participants. The episode explores the post-World War I “Great Migration” of African-Americans from the South to northern cities like Detroit and Chicago, as well as those who stayed in the South during the period of Jim Crow segregation. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. also begins an intriguing examination of his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Contents: True love / Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly -- For me and my gal / Gene Kelly, Judy Garland -- Ain't nature grand / Esther Williams, Fernando Lamas -- Breezin' along with the breeze / Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz -- Make believe / Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson -- Nevertheless I'm in love with you / Fred Astaire, Anita Ellis -- Stranger in Paradise / Ann Blyth, Vic Damone -- The best things in life are free...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Movie Music 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC ROMGarland, Judy.
Contents: Every Sunday. Waltz with a swing/Americana ; Opera vs. jazz -- Broadway melody of 1938. Everybody sing ; Yours and mine ; Your Broadway and my Broadway -- Thoroughbreds don't cry. Got a pair of new shoes ; Sun showers -- Everybody sing. Down on Melody Farm ; Why, because! ; Ever since the world began/Shall I sing a melody? -- Love finds Andy Hardy. In between ; It never rains, but what it pours...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Classic Movies Music/Rhino Movie Music 1996
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC GARSummary: The songs from the original animated motion picture soundtrack about Mowgli, the man-cub raised in the jungle by a pack of wolves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Records 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC JUNButts, Anthony.
Contents: The Saint Brigid psalms -- Before autumn -- Song of starry-eyed children -- Intercession to Saint Brigid -- Mist and fog -- Song of earth and sky -- The landscape for growth -- Eight modes toward desire -- Thin places -- Ice palaces -- Pygmalion -- The memory of light -- Soldiers -- Fretwork -- Voices' end -- Embers -- Far from home -- Wise and innocent -- The distance from here to there --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.54 BUTMoon, Elaine Latzman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: MI 977.434 MOOSita, 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 SITMorricone, Ennio.
Contents: The cat o'nine tails (1969). Night walk (5:37) ; Final pursuit (alternate version) (1:42) -- The forbidden pictures of a high society lady (1970). Those pictures (5:03) -- Blood in the streets (1973). Revolver (12:37) -- Without apparent motive (1971). Hit fully in the breast (alternate version) (1:38) -- The attempt (1972). The attempt (4:36) -- The devil in the brain (1972). Before the vision...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Drg Movies 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD SHOW MUSIC MORSummary: This program looks at how African-Americans defined their freedom after slavery. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviews courthouse records of land acquisitions, documents from the Freedmen's Bureau and the 1870 census—the first in which African-Americans were counted as citizens, not property—to trace his subjects’ lineages through Reconstruction. A vein that continues throughout the series is Gates'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Josephson, 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 JOSSummary: In this episode, when the paper trail runs out, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. visits scientists who are using DNA analysis to trace ancestral roots. With results in hand he meets with leading historians of the slave trade and discovers more fascinating details about his own ancestry. Finally, Professor Gates and a guest journey to Africa, where they visit the port from which the guest’s patrilineal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: The challenge of genealogical research is even more evident as Henry Louis Gates, Jr. continues back through the Colonial period of American history in this program. The film takes us on a journey to fill in the family trees of each of the series participants, through war service records and various records of property during slavery's apogee—including inventories, sales, or gifts of slaves. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Jacques, Geoffrey.
Contents: Saturday night fish fry -- Bursting out all over -- Intrusion -- Sepia-tones footage -- Commercial euphoria -- White supremacy is not eternal -- After midnight -- The present "crisis" -- Stomp -- Mesopotamia -- James Baldwin -- Well you needn't -- The wonderful fantasies of the colonized -- Giant -- The blab of the pave -- Supporting architecture -- Just for a thrill -- Reverie -- Evaluation --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wayne State University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 811.6 JACKenyon, 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 KENSummary: Though Hispanic people journey to the United States from different homelands, do they all share the same heritage and concerns? This program takes a detailed look at the fastest-growing minority in the U.S. and what it means to be Latino and American. The documentary contrasts the experience of being a Latino in a flourishing ethnic neighborhood of a big city with living in a small town, where...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005