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Summary: Presents the stories of ten African-American men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney/Jump at the Sun Books 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 PINPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: Explores the intersecting lives of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at the historic moment when their joined voices inspired landmark changes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Co. 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.092 PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB KING PINPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: "This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality and the growing civil rights movement."--Amazon.com.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 323.1 PINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J323.1196 PINPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: A brief recounting of the career of this jazz musician and composer who, along with his orchestra, created music that was beyond category.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 1998
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ELLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ELLINGTON PINPinkney, Andrea Davis.
Summary: In 1955 Hadley, Virginia, twelve-year-old Dawnie Rae Johnson, a tomboy who excels at baseball and at her studies, becomes the first African American student to attend the all-white Prettyman Coburn school, turning her world upside down. Includes historical notes about the period.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2011