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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
[36] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
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In segregated 1950s Nashville, a young African American girl braves a series of indignities and obstacles to get to one of the few integrated places in town: the public library.
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 139 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues, Tris Prior is warned she is Divergent and will never fit into any one group. When she discovers a conspiracy by a faction leader to destroy all Divergents, Tris must learn to trust in the mysterious Four and together they must find out what makes being Divergent so dangerous before it's too late.
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"As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as good as anyone." Abandoned by his parents, but kept on the straight and narrow by his grandmother, Elwood is about to enroll in the local black college. But for a black boy in the Jim Crow South of the early 1960s, one innocent mistake is enough to destroy the future. Elwood...
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Frank has always been obsessed with elephants. He loves their hosepipe trunks, tree stump feet, and swish-swish tails. So when Miss Fancy, the elephant, retires from the circus and moves two blocks from his house to Avondale Park, he's over the moon! Frank really wants to pet her. But Avondale Park is just for white people, so Frank is not allowed to see Miss Fancy. Frank is heartbroken but he doesn't give up: instead he makes a plan! -- publisher....
8) Brooms
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"Its 1930s Mississippi. Magic is permitted only in certain circumstances, and by certain people. Unsanctioned broom racing is banned. But for those who need the money, or the thrills...it's there to be found. Meet Billie Mae, captain of the Night Storms racing team, and Loretta, her best friend and second-in-command. They're determined to make enough money to move out west to a state that allows Black folks to legally use magic and take part in national...
Author
Series
Baseball card adventures volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
ix, 175 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
With his ability to travel through time using vintage baseball cards, Joe takes Flip with him to find out whether Satchel Paige really was the fastest pitcher ever.
11) Northbound
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Description
"On his first train ride, Michael meets a new friend from the "whites only" car--but finds they can hang together for only part of the trip--in the last story in a trilogy about the author&;s life growing up in the segregated South
12) Claudette Colvin
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Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
51 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"A biography of Claudette Colvin in the She Persisted series"--
14) Glory be
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In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
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Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Description
When Ruth and her parents take a motor trip from Chicago to Alabama to visit her grandma, they rely on a pamphlet called "The Negro Motorist Green Book" to find places that will serve them. Includes facts about "The Green Book."
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 119 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tris and Four are now fugitives on the run, hunted by Jeanine, the leader of the power-hungry Erudite elite. Racing against time, they must find out what Tris₂s family sacrificed their lives to protect, and why the Erudite leaders will do anything to stop them. Haunted by her past choices but desperate to protect the ones she loves, Tris, with Four at her side, faces one impossible challenge after another as they unlock the truth about the past...
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
9 CDs (10 hrs.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In this sweeping account, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the sixteenth century and its revival by the Nazis to the present day. We meet pioneering black thinkers such as Horace Cayton, a graduate student whose work on the South Side of Chicago established a new paradigm for thinking about Northern racism and black poverty in the 1940s. We learn how the psychologist Kenneth Clark subsequently linked the slum...
20) Heavens fall
Publisher
Allumination Filmworks
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A tragic true story of nine black men who were pulled off an Alabama freight train and accused of raping two young white women, quickly tried, and sentenced to the electric chair. Forcing an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, a lone man defends them.
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