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Baby Dee Dee, Ruby. Hurston, Zora Neale. Morrison, Toni. Poitier, Sidney Stone, Dan.Dee, Ruby.
Summary: A retelling of a traditional Liberian tale in which King Leopard invites all the animals to a spear-throwing contest whose winner will marry his daughter and succeed him as king.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: H. Holt. 1990
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE DEESummary: Traces the course of a single day on a block in the Bedford-Stuyvesant area of Brooklyn. It's the hottest day of the year, a scorching 24-hour period that will change the lives of its residents forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DOSummary: With his rousingly entertaining directorial debut, Sidney Poitier helped rewrite the history of the western, bringing Black heroes to a genre in which they had always been sorely underrepresented. Combining boisterous buddy comedy with blistering, Black Power-era political fury, Poitier and a marvelously mischievous Harry Belafonte star as a tough and taciturn wagon master and an unscrupulous,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN BUCHurston, Zora Neale.
Summary: Janie Crawford, a Southern Black woman in the 1930's, journeys from being a free-spirited girl to a woman of independence and substance.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Caedmon 2000
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HURPoitier, Sidney
Summary: An ex-Union Army sergeant leads a group of black freed slaves to their homesteads in the West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BUCStone, Dan.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: National Endowment for the Arts 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 813 STOSummary: When 11-year-old Jason Ross is cut from his little league team his undefeatable spirit leads him to try and create an expansion team. In searching for a new coach, Jason comes to believe that Mack Henry is really Buck McHenry, the legendary pitcher from the old Negro Baseball Leagues. While Mack begins to coach this rag-tag team, Jason and his friends set out to prove his true identity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Familes 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FINSummary: The life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., from the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama, and culminating with his assassination in Memphis in 1968. Including archival footage, this film is an indispensable primary resource of a pivotal moment in American and world history. Originally screened in theaters for only a single night in 1970.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KINSummary: Members of an African American family living in a cramped Chicago apartment, in this deeply resonant tale of dreams deferred. Following the death of their patriarch, the Youngers await a life insurance check they hope will change their circumstances, but tensions arise over how best to use the money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA RAIMorrison, Toni.
Summary: The Bluest Eye is the story of eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove, a black girl in an America whose love for its blonde, blue-eyed children can devastate all others, who prays for her eyes to turn blue: so that she will be beautiful, so that people will look at her, so that her world will be different. This is the story of the nightmare at the heart of her yearning, and the tragedy of its...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing 1994
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORSummary: Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAISummary: Originally aired as a television mini-series, this all-star filmization of Stephen King's gripping epic of good versus evil chronicles the episodic adventures of a disparate group of people who struggle to reestablish civilization after a man-made catastrophe wipes out most of the world's population. The world abruptly ends when a deadly virus accidentally escapes from a government sponsored...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Picture 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SContents: Disc 1. The camp meeting jubilee (Unknown) -- My man rocks me (Trixie Smith) -- Kansas city blues (Jim Jackson) -- Going to move to Alabama (Charley Patton) -- Move it on over (Hank Williams) -- It's tight like that (Tampa Red) -- Pinetop's boogie woogie (Clarence "Pinetop" Smith) -- Jimmy's blues (Jimmy Blythe) -- Crazy about my baby (Blind Roosevelt Graves) -- Tiger rag (Washboard Rhythm...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Famous Flames Recording 2011
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES FIRBaby Dee
Contents: Cowboys with cowboy hat hair -- Yapapipi -- Regifted light -- Coughing up cat hair -- Deep peaceful -- Brother slug and sister snail -- Lullaby parade -- On the day I died -- Horn pipe -- The pie song -- Cowboy street -- The move.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Drag City 0000