Summary: An adaptation of Alex Haley's "Roots", in which Haley traces his African American family's history from the mid-18th century to the Reconstruction era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Jones-Rogers, Stephanie E.
Summary: "Bridging women's history, the history of the South, and African American history, this book makes a bold argument about the role of white women in American slavery. Historian Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers draws on a variety of sources to show that slave-owning women were sophisticated economic actors who directly engaged in and benefited from the South's slave market. Because women typically...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 JONRosen, Richard A.
Summary: Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chambers worked to advance the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's strategic litigation campaign for civil rights, ultimately winning landmark...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The University of North Carolina Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CHAMBERS, JULIUS ROSJones, Stephen Graham
Summary: Poor yet resilient, the boy lives in the shadows with his aunt Libby and uncle Darren, folk who stubbornly make their way in a society that does not understand or want them. Always on the move across the South, living a life of late-night exits and narrow escapes, one step ahead of the law. But everything is about to change. The boy will be turning sixteen, and he will need to understand his...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: Sheep, sheep, don'tcha know the road (Bessie Jones and the Sea Island Singers) -- The juice of the forbidden fruit (Neil Morris) -- Devil's dream (Hobart Smith) -- You got dimples in your jaws (Willie Jones and others) -- Drunken hiccups (Hobart Smith) -- You done tol' everybody (Fred McDowell) -- The house carpenter (Almeda Riddle) -- Straighten 'em (Bright Light Quartet) -- Corn dodgers (Neil...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOUSummary: "When Daisy Werthan, a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in midcentury Atlanta, is deemed too old to drive, her son hires Hoke Colburn, an African American man, to serve as her chauffeur. What begins as a troubled and hostile pairing, soon blossoms into a profound, life-altering friendship that transcends all the societal boundaries placed between them. This iconic tale of pride,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015