Martin, Rachel Louise
Summary: "An intimate portrait of a small Southern town living through tumultuous times, this propulsive piece of forgotten civil rights history--about the first school to attempt court-ordered desegregation in the wake of Brown v. Board--will forever change how you think of the end of racial segregation in America. In graduate school, Rachel Martin volunteered with a Southern oral history project. One...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.2 MARGrundset, Eric.
Contents: Developing a South Carolina and Tennessee research strategy -- Major research centers in North Carolina and Tennessee and elsewhere with pertinent Revolutionary War collections -- Geographical factors affecting research in North Carolina and Tennessee -- Pre-revolutionary events in the Province of North Carolina -- General histories of the American Revolution in North Carolina and Tennessee --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution 2016
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R GEN 929.3756 GRUHicks, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC HICHicks, Robert
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2005
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Summary: "Eleanor's practical plans for the new home for Civil War widows and orphans at Belmont Mansion, in Nashville, conflict with architect Marcus' artistic vision. Will they ever manage to find common ground?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House, A division of Baker Publishing Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALEWeiss, Elaine F.
Summary: "This adaptation of the book Hillary Clinton calls "a page-turning drama and an inspiration" will spark the attention of young readers and teach them about activism, civil rights, and the fight for women's suffrage--just in time for the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment. Includes an eight-page photo insert! American women are so close to winning the right to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 324.6 WEIShepherd, Gail
Summary: When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD SHEDeRose, Chris (Christopher)
Summary: "The incredible, untold story of the WWII vets who overthrew their corrupt hometown government--the only successful armed rebellion on US soil since the War of Independence. Corrupt politician Paul Cantrell was in complete control of McMinn County, Tennessee, his whims enforced by the violent Sheriff Pat Mansfield and his deputies. On Election Day, Cantrell and the sheriff seized the ballot...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.8 DERWithers, Ernest C.
Summary: "Ernest C. Withers was one of the most prominent African-American photographers during the civil rights years. During the course of his work, he took thousands photographs that document the Movement--from the Emmett Till trial in 1955 to the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. What set his work apart was that he goes beyond the political struggles to show the human face of Movement....
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Publisher / Publication Date: CityFiles Press 2019
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 323.1196 WITWithers, Ernest C.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harry N. Abrams 2004
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 796.3576 WITChristie, Judy Pace
Summary: "From the 1920s through 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up more than 5,000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents--hiding the fact that many weren't orphans at all, but stolen children of poor families, desperate single mothers, and women told in maternity words that their babies died. The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.73 CHRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 362.73 CHRDuncan, Alice Faye
Summary: Recounts the 1968 sanitation workers strike in Memphis, Tennessee, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his final speech to strikers the night before his assassination, and details the perseverance of strikers before and after his death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 331.892 DUNAlexander, Tamera
Summary: A gifted rider in a world where ladies never race, Maggie Linden is determined that her horse will become a champion. An Irishman far from home, Cullen McGrath left a once prosperous life in England because of a horse racing scandal that nearly ruined him. He's come to Nashville hoping to buy land and begin farming, determined to stay as far away from thoroughbred racing as possible. When...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zondervan 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION ALEBarry, Sebastian
Summary: When Winona Cole, an orphaned child of the Lakota Indians, is violently attacked, she takes matters into her own hands and embarks on a quest for justice that will uncover the dark secrets of her past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Showing how a single community's terrible tragedy instead became the catalyst for radical change, this first book to examine the Waverly Train Disaster of 1978, penned by a medical writer and Waverly native, examines how this disaster laid the groundwork for the future of emergency management and disaster relief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Citadel Press, Kensington Publishing Corp. 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 ALITieck, Sarah
Summary: Presents basic information about Tennessee, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Big Buddy Books, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.8 TIELeamer, Laurence.
Summary: Through interviews with stars, managers, songwriters, and executives at the 1996 annual week-long Fan Fair country music event at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds, Leamer explores how country music stars became successful and why country music has become so popular throughout the U.S. Includes interviews with Garth Brooks, Vince Gill, Reba McEntire, Mindy McCready, Shania Twain, Wynonna Judd,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 781.64 LEAGriffey, Irene M.
Summary: The State of Tennessee was established, essentially, from land ceded to the federal government by North Carolina. Clouding the various land cession laws that transferred the title of land from North Carolina to the United States south of the River Ohio (a territory) and then to Tennessee was the requirement, however vaguely defined, that North Carolina Revolutionary soldiers' promise of land...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clearfield 2000
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1 available in Reference, Call number: GEN 929.3768 GRIRay, Worth S. (Worth Stickley)
Summary: Tennessee Cousins historical account devotes considerable space to Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia and other Southern States, and sometimes to English Origins of those families who played important roles in Tennessee history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Genealogical Pub. Co. 2010
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Morris, Gilbert.
Summary: After Hawk Spencer brings his son west to the Watauga settlement, the city-bred Jacob finds himself in competition with his stepbrother Andrew for the love of Abigail Stevens.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bethany House Publishers 1997
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORStreet, James
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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 TIM VOL 23Shepherd, Gail
Summary: When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kathy Dawson Books 2019
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Summary: When twelve-year-old Lyndie and her parents must move to her grandparents' home in small-town Tennessee in 1985, having to keep all family problems private only adds to their problems.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2019
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 1998