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1601) I am curious!
Author
Series
Princess Truly (An Acorn Book) volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
44 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Description
In rhyming text, Princess Truly visits the science museum with her brother, solves the mystery of her missing snack, and uses her magic curls to take a trip to outer space with her put, Sir Noodles.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
viii, 328 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"The true story of Effa Manley, the first and only woman in the Baseball Hall of Fame, and her ownership role in the Negro Leagues leading up to the integration of Major League Baseball"--
1603) Truevine: two brothers, a kidnapping, and a mother's quest : a true story of the Jim Crow South
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"The true story of two African-American brothers who were kidnapped and displayed as circus freaks, and whose mother endured a 28-year struggle to get them back. The year was 1899 and the place a sweltering tobacco farm in the Jim Crow South town of Truevine, Virginia. George and Willie Muse were two little boys born to a sharecropper family. One day a white man offered them a piece of candy, setting off events that would take them around the world...
1604) Ordinary light: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A memoir about the author's coming of age as she grapples with her identity as an artist, her family's racial history, and her mother's death from cancer"--
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: a deeply moving memoir that explores coming-of-age and the meaning of home against a complex backdrop of race, faith, and the unbreakable bond between a mother and daughter. Tracy K. Smith had a fairly typical upbringing in suburban California: the youngest...
Author
Publisher
Hub City Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xv, 275 page, 16 unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"Adam Parker's incisive biography is about a proud black man who refuses to be defeated, whose tumultuous life story personifies America's continuing civil rights struggle."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Rockridge Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
59 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 21 cm
Description
"John Lewis was a civil rights leader and United States congressman who never stopped speaking up for justice, equality, and peace. Before he marched with Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, John was a thoughtful kid who loved learning, but wasn't able to go to a good school because of segregation. He wanted to make a difference in his community, so he organized peaceful protests to end segregation and fight for equal rights for...
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The day nine-year-old Grace is called to work in the kitchen in the Big House, everyone warns her to to keep her head down and her thoughts to herself, but the more she sees of the oppressive Master and his hateful wife, the more she questions things until one day her thoughts escape--and to avoid being separated she and her family flee into the Dismal Swamp, to join the other escaped slaves who live there.
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xviii, 302 pages ; 24 cm
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Recounts the true story of Black Wall Street and the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, when a white mob murdered hundreds of citizens and decimated the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK chapter responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing. By early 1966, the civil rights work of Vernon Dahmer, head of the Forrest County chapter of the NAACP and a dedicated advocate for voter registration, was well-known in Mississippi. This put him in the crosshairs of the White Knights, one of the most violent sects of the KKK in the South-which carried out his...
Author
Series
Nightmare-verse volume 2
Publisher
Imprint
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
404 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Still reeling from her recent battle (and grounded until she graduates high school), Alice must cross the Veil to rescue her friends and stop the Black Knight once and for all. But the further she ventures into Wonderland, the more topsy-turvy everything becomes. It's not until she's at her wit's end that she realizes Wonderland is trying to save her. There's a new player on the board, someone capable of using Nightmare creatures to not only influence...
1614) How it feels to be free
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 115 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Take an unprecedented look at the intersection of African American women artists, politics and entertainment and hear the story of how six trailblazing performers - Lena Horne, Abbey Lincoln, Diahann Carroll, Nina Simone, Cicely Tyson and Pam Grier - changed American culture through their films, fashion, music, and politics.
1616) Black wings
Publisher
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (51 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A documentary on the first African American aviators, examining the achievements of Bessie Coleman, William Powell, James Herman Banning, Thomas C. Allen, and Marlon Green.
Author
Publisher
Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Three kids. One dog. And the island of Manhattan, laid out in an old treasure map. Zane is itching for an adventure that will take him away from his family’s boarding house in Rockaway, Queens. So when he is entrusted with a real treasure map, leading to a spot somewhere in Manhattan, Zane wastes no time in riding the ferry over to the city to start the search with his friends Kiko and Jack and his dog, Hip-Hop. Through strange coincidence,...
1618) Waiting for Pumpsie
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In 1959 Bernard is a young Red Sox fan, troubled by the lack of Black players in major league baseball, especially as there are none at all on his favorite team--but change is coming in the form of a rookie named Pumpsie Green.
1619) Your voice, your vote
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
On Election Day, as they walk through their vibrant neighborhood on their way to vote, Quetta, her mother and her grandmother face obstacle after obstacle before and after reaching their voting station, showing Quetta the importance of raising her voice.
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