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462) Serena Williams
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
"Discover the amazing achievements of sports legend Serena Williams--on and off the tennis court--in this exciting new biography. Serena Williams has been ranked number one in the world for tennis singles, won twenty-two Grand Slam singles titles, and won four Olympic gold medals. She is a powerful player and a fierce competitor. Learn more about the record-breaking athlete in this comprehensive and action-packed biography, complete with stats...
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mismatched pair pushed together on a road trip from South Central L.A. to Oakland, find themselves reluctantly attracted to each other, when they are confronted once again by the shocking violence they thought they'd left behind.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
x, 223 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.
Description
Hurricane Katrina survivor LeBlanc--featured in Spike Lee's acclaimed HBO documentary "When the Levees Broke"--offers an astounding and poignant account of her struggle to survive one of the nation's worst disasters.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
48 pages ; cm
Description
"When Rosa Parks was a young girl, she had to walk to school. Only white children were allowed to ride the bus. When Rosa grew up, she was told to give up her bus seat to a white person. She decided the time had come to stand up for fairness by staying seated. What happened next changed America."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm
Description
"Distinguished historian Ellen Carol DuBois begins in the pre-Civil War years with foremothers Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Sojourner Truth as she explores the links of the woman suffrage movement to the abolition of slavery. After the Civil War, Congress granted freed African American men the right to vote but not white and African American women, a crushing disappointment. DuBois shows how suffrage leaders persevered...
472) Parable of the sower
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Formats
Description
"In 2025 California, an eighteen-year-old African American woman, suffering from a hereditary trait that causes her to feel others' pain as well as her own, flees northward from her small community and its desperate savages." --
Author
Publisher
Clarkson Potter/Publishers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
224 pages ; cm
Description
"In May 2012, bestselling author Alice Randall penned an op-ed in the New York Times titled "Black Women and Fat," chronicling her quest to be "the last fat black woman" in her family. She turned to her daughter, Caroline Randall Williams, for help. Together they overhauled the way they cook and eat, translating recipes and traditions handed down by generations of black women into easy, affordable, and healthful--yet still indulgent--dishes, such...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel and Grau
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 372 pages : illustration (black and white), maps, portratis, photographs; 24 cm.
Description
Hard-drinking, hard-living poker players and prostitutes of the new boom towns; wives and mothers traveling two and a half thousand miles across the prairies in covered-wagon convoys, some of them so poor they walked the entire route; African-American women in search of freedom from slavery; Chinese sex-workers sold openly on the docks of San Francisco; Native American women brutally displaced by the unstoppable tide of white settlers -- all were...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Description
Now widely available, the popular, award-winning, self-published guide to help women get out of debt, rebuild their credit, and fulfill their financial dreams.Patrice Washington rationalized her excessive spending. “I work hard, I deserve this.” “I bought it on sale.” But at twenty-two, the recent college graduate was $18,000 in debt and sinking fast. It was time to take control. Patrice educated herself about finance, adopted a new attitude...
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