Filter By Subjects
African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans African Americans Biography African Americans Civil rights African Americans in motion pictures Civil rights demonstrations Civil rights workers Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 United States Washington (D.C.)Filter By Subjects
African American motion picture producers and directors African Americans African Americans Biography African Americans Civil rights African Americans in motion pictures Civil rights demonstrations Civil rights workers Jr King, Martin Luther 1929-1968 United States Washington (D.C.)Carter, Steven
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 1987
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.734 CARKing, Coretta Scott
Summary: This picture book adaptation of her critically acclaimed adult memoir paints a vivid portrait of the wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a singular 20th-century American civil and human rights activist who fought for justice against all odds, becoming an unforgettable champion of social change.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2024
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: J 921 KINBendis, Brian Michael, jt. author.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Dan Buckley 2008
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC BendiHolm, John A., jt. author.
Contents: North easter / Marx, Schultze 4:13. -- Lucky Jack / Parks, Schultze 5:20. -- Catalina / Holm, Pietsch 4:20. -- Fireshoes / Schultze 4:14. -- Solitude / Schultze 5:49. -- Leo / Marx, Schultze 4:58. -- The fox and the lady / Schultze 4:22. -- Lonely rose / Holm, Singer 5:02. -- Pisces / Pietsch 4:19.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Higher Octave 1989
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE CUSSummary: "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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUBanham, Joanna.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crescent Books 1991
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 747.201 BANSummary: Long-awaited and unseen anywhere for decades, Maigret (1960-1963) is the definitive adaptation of Georges Simenon's world-famous novels. The BBC television production stars Rupert Davies as Commissaire Jules Maigret, the dogged French detective. Though Simenon's books have been adapted many times, Davies's celebrated, BAFTA-winning portrayal won the approval of Simenon himself, who stated: "At...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY BRITISH TV MAISummary: Touki bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. ... two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARMcLaughlin, Emma.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC McLauVance, Peggy.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trafalgar Square Pub. 1995
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 738.5 VANCContents: Disc one. Give me back my wig / Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers (3:31) -- I'm a woman / Koko Taylor (4:36) -- Have mercy / Big Walter Horton ; with Carey Bell (3:45) -- Somebody loan me a dime / Fenton Robinson (2:54) -- It's my fault, darling / Professor Longhair (4:54) -- Telephone angel / Son Seals (5:25) -- Lights out / Johnny Winter (2:35) -- Blue Monday hangover / Albert Collins...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Franek, Robert
Summary: A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in dozens of different categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378.73 FRAHarriet, Syd.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Brassey's 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.352 HARFranek, Robert
Summary: A survey of life on the nation's campuses offers detailed profiles of the best colleges and rankings of colleges in dozens of different categories, along with a wealth of information and applications tips.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Random House 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 378.73 FRAFoals (Musical group)
Summary: In this installment in the !K7 label's mixtape albums, the musical group The Foals compiles their choice selection of tracks, organized as they would place them on two sides of a cassette mixtape.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: !K7 2012
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FOASummary: In Miri Matteson's first few weeks out after an eighteen-year stint behind bars for murder, the mystery of her past looms large in her insular small hometown. Life post-prison is not going to be easy. Her attempts to kickstart a new life fall flat, and while her parents try to be supportive, they are having troubles of their own. Will Miri find redemption, or is she doomed to be a middle-aged...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BACSoto, Julie
Summary: "Ama Torres has a lot of rules, but the most important one? Absolutely no relationships. Ironic given that her goal is to become the go-to wedding planner in Sacramento. But the one time she came close to her own happily-ever-after, it ended disastrously. So, when she scores the celebrity wedding of the year, Ama is ready to make her dreams into reality. The catch? The tall, gorgeous, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Forever 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOTCulligan, Matthew J.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Facts on File Inc. 1983
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Rich in culture and history, the pride of the African-American tradition comes alive in these award-winning stories. These stories includes Martin's Big Words, John Henry, and Seven Candles For Kwanzaa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARKurtz, Jane.
Summary: In 1963 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech that proclaimed that it was time -- long overdue -- for all people to be treated as equals. Today his beliefs are more important than ever, and author Jane Kurtz explains Dr. King's words in language even the youngest reader can understand.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2008
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.author.
Summary: Algeria-born French intellectual Hélène Cixous is a feminist legend, a May 68 activist, and a major postmodern author. With friends like the philosopher Jacques Derrida, the artist Adel Abdessemed, and stage director Ariane Mnouchkine, Cixous examines the wounds of our time while allowing us to hear the cry of literature. In his "road movie" documentary EVER, RÊVE, HÉLÈNE CIXOUS, director...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC EVESummary: Among the most fascinating chapters of film history is that of the so-called "race films" that flourished in the 1920s -'40s. Unlike the "black cast" films produced within the Hollywood studio system, these films not only starred African Americans but were funded, written, produced, edited, distributed, and often exhibited by people of color. Entrepreneurial filmmakers built an industry apart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PIO1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DOC PIO