Johnson, Walter

Summary: "From an award-winning historian, a groundbreaking portrait of pervasive exploitation and radical resistance in America, told through the turbulent history of St. Louis. From Lewis and Clark's 1804 expedition to the 2014 uprising in Ferguson, American history has been made in St. Louis. And as Walter Johnson shows in this searing book, the city exemplifies how imperialism, racism, and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 977.8 JOH

Smith, Tab

Contents: Because of you -- Slow motion -- Dee jay special -- Sin -- Under a blanket of blue -- How can you say we're thru -- Wig song -- Hands across the table -- One man dip -- Down beat -- Brown baby -- Knotty-headed women -- Boogie joogie -- Can't we take a chance -- All my life -- Jump time -- This love of mine -- Ain't got nobody -- Love is a wonderful thing -- Nursery rhyme jump.

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Delmark Records 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ SMI

Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAU

Fain, Sammy

Format: notated music

Publisher / Publication Date: 1945

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2 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHM

Summary: General Casey of the U.S. Army Air Forces in England must fight congressional representatives and his own chain of command to be allowed to complete an important mission.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007

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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE COM

Patton, Charley

Contents: Disc A, June 1929 (featuring Walter Hawkins, vocals, guitar). Pony blues -- A spoonful blues -- Down the dirt road blues -- Prayer of death, part 1 -- Prayer of death, part 2 -- Screamin' and hollerin' the blues -- Banty rooster blues -- Tom Rushen blues -- It won't be long -- Shake it and break it (but don't let it fall, Mama) -- Pea vine blues -- Mississippi boll weevil blues -- Lord, I'm...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2002

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES PAT

Various Artists.

Contents: Hot fingers (Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang) (2:56) -- A handful of riffs (Lonnie Johnson & Eddie Lang) (3:05) -- Work ox blues (Texas Alexander) (3:16) -- I'm busy and you can't come in (Sylvester Weaver) (3:18) -- Georgia rag (Blind Willie McTell as Georgia Bill) (2:54) -- Warm it up to me (Blind Willie McTell as Blind Willie) (2:54) -- Untitled (Sylvester Weaver) (3:10) -- Untitled (Sylvester...

Format: sound recording-musical

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia/Legacy 1991

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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES GRE

Summary: The Hollow crown: "New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard II; King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2; King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOL