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African American women civil rights workers African Americans Civil rights History African Americans Civil rights History Juvenile literature African Americans Social conditions To 1964 African Americans Social conditions To 1964 Juvenile literature Civil rights workers Fisher family United States Race relations Wells-Barnett, Ida B 1862-1931 Women BiographyFisher, Edwin L. (Edwin Lewis)
Summary: William Fisher and Betsy Burnett established their family in a rural area of Salem, Washington County, New York starting in 1817. Almost twelve hundred descendants and their spouses have been identified and there are probably hundreds more who have not been found. The details of their migrations provides a fascinating story of one small part in the early development of our country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: E.L. Fisher 2006
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FISHER FisherTurk, Katherine
Summary: In the summer of 1966, crammed into a D.C. hotel suite, twenty-eight women devised a revolutionary plan. Betty Friedan, the well-known author of The Feminine Mystique, and Pauli Murray, a lawyer at the front lines of the civil rights movement, had called this renegade meeting from attendees at the annual conference of state women's commissions. Fed up with waiting for government action and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.42 TURSachs, Lloyd
Summary: T Bone Burnett offers the first critical appreciation of Burnett s wide-ranging contributions to American music, his passionate advocacy for analog sound, and the striking contradictions that define his maverick artistry. Lloyd Sachs highlights all the important aspects of Burnett s musical pursuits, from his early days as a member of Bob Dylan s Rolling Thunder Revue and his collaboration with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Texas Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNETT, T BONE SACBurnett, Carol.
Summary: In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such at Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; her television show that won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run; and the sorrows that she overcame with her irresistable humor.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BURNETT, CAROL BURBurnett, Carol.
Summary: In engaging anecdotes, Carol discusses her remarkable friendships with stars such at Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Cary Grant, and Julie Andrews; her television show that won twenty-five Emmys in its remarkable eleven-year run; and the sorrows that she overcame with her irresistible humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harmony Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BURNETT, CAROL BURBurnett, John S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 BURFisher, Edwin L. (Edwin Lewis)
Summary: William Fisher (ca. 1795-1823) arrived in America during the War of 1812 and did not return to England. He and Betsy Burnett were married in Salem, Massachusetts and their first son, John Edward Fisher was born in 1818. Their son, David, emigrated to Canada. Other descendants lived in Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri and elsewhere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [E.L. Fisher] 1980
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.2 FISHER FisherZitz, Michael
Summary: Warren Buffett's big sister Doris, known as the Sunshine Lady, derives such joy from helping others on a one on one basis that her own hard life, including estrangement from her own children, has never hardened her heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Permanent Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BUFFETT, DORIS ZITBurnett, Dean.
Summary: "A delightful tour of our mysterious, mischievous gray matter from neuroscientist and massively popular Guardian blogger Dean Burnett,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 610 BURDuster, 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 WELJohnson, Dinah
Summary: "A picture book biography about Ida B. Wells and her life as a suffragist, with a focus on the Women's March of 1913"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WELDray, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peachtree 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WELSummary: This film profiles Chester Burnett, better known as the Howlin' Wolf. It includes an incredible compendium of never-before-seen footage of the Howlin' Wolf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Sea Productions 2003
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HOWKotb, Hoda
Summary: The "Today" co-anchor shares the inspiring stories of people who found their life's purpose in unexpected ways, from a Wall Street investment banker-turned-minister to a blue-collar woman who attended Harvard Medical School.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 KOTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 170 KOTDavidson, James West.
Contents: Into a changing world -- A moral education -- Unladylike lady -- Edged tools -- Ambition to edit -- They say -- Do something -- Exiled.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WELLS, IDA DAVBurnett, Carol
Summary: Get the best seat in the house as comedy legend Carol Burnett tells the hilarious behind-the-scenes story of her iconic weekly variety series, The Carol Burnett Show. For eleven glorious seasons the guests, sketches and cast antics made the show legendary. Burnett lays it all out for us, from the show's original conception to its evolution into one of the most beloved primetime programs of its...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 791.45 BURParachini, Jodie
Summary: "A biography of astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who helped build a radio telescope that helped her discover pulsars, a new type of star. Some scientists consider it the greatest astronomical discovery of the twentieth century. Despite this achievement, she was overlooked in favor of two male colleagues when the Nobel Prize for physics was awarded. Bell is still working and teaching today,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Albert Whitman & Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 BURSampson, Fiona
Summary: "A nuanced, comprehensive portrait of Britain's most famous female poet, a woman who invented herself and defied her times. "How do I love thee? Let me count the ways." With these words, Elizabeth Barrett Browning has come down to us as a romantic heroine, a recluse controlled by a domineering father and often overshadowed by her husband, Robert Browning. But behind the melodrama lies a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021