Summary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ONECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: A fictional account of one amazing night where icons Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, Sam Cooke, and Jim Brown gathered discussing their roles in the Civil Rights Movement and cultural turmoil of the '60s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA ONEContents: Violin blues (Johnson Boys) (3:17) -- K.C. Railroad blues (Andrew & Jim Baxter) (3:28) -- Beaver slide rag ("Peg Leg" Howell & His Gang) (3:18) -- Alma waltz (Mississippi Mud Steppers) (2:52) -- Window pane blues (Tommie Bradley) (3:14) -- Travelin' railroad man (Alabama Sheiks) (2:58) -- Pig meat blues (Whistler & His Jug Band) (3:07) -- Right now blues (Frank Stokes) (3:04) -- East Jackson...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Old Hat 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES VIOStotts, Rodney
Summary: "In Bird Brother, Rodney [Stotts] shares his remarkable journey to becoming a conservationist and one of America's few Black master falconers. For Rodney, a job pulling trash from the Anacostia River with the Earth Conservation Corps began as a side gig to dealing drugs--a way to get a paystub necessary to rent his own apartment. But then something incredible happened: the river's health began...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Island Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 STOTTS, RODNEY STOBarber, Angel
Summary: Eric Wallace is sick of secrets. As a Black queer teen, Eric's efforts to conform to fit his parents' and classmates' expectations have left him exhausted by the summer after senior year. When Eric finds out his pastor father has been cheating on his mother, his picture-perfect family crumbles. Eric rages at the double standards he's been held to. He travels to Los Angeles with his best friends...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: West 44 Books, an imprint of Enslow Publishing 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BARSummary: This story follows the life of Eliza and her protector Uncle Tom, who are caught in the brutality of slavery in the Southern States during the nineteenth century.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UNCStowe, Harriet Beecher
Summary: Contains three novels on the topics of slavery, romance, and changes in the lifestyles in an old small town.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1982
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC STOStone, Nic
Summary: "Vernell Laquan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later, though, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University . . . and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Through a series of flashbacks, vignettes, and letters to Justyce -- the protagonist of Dear Martin -- Quan's story...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: PA FIC STOStone, Nic
Summary: Writing letters to the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., seventeen-year-old college-bound Justyce McAllister struggles to face the reality of race relations today and how they are shaping him.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC STOCurry, Parker
Summary: "Parker writes letters to her friend Gia while she travels across the U.S. and visits states such as Georgia and New Mexico"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN CURHarper, Judith E.
Summary: Portrays the treatment and struggles of African Americans during the Revolutionary War and their contributions to the war effort.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.3 HARSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUSummary: The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROORhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: "Framed. Bullied. Disliked. But I know I can still be the best. Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield Prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC RHORhodes, Jewell Parker
Summary: "Sometimes, 12-year-old Donte wishes he were invisible. As one of the few black boys at Middlefield prep, most of the students don't look like him. They don't like him either. Dubbing him "Black Brother," Donte's teachers and classmates make it clear they wish he were more like his lighter-skinned brother, Trey. When he's bullied and framed by the captain of the fencing team, "King" Alan, he's...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020