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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2015. | The University of Georgia Press | xvi, 223 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Biography B DUNNIGA A |
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"Alice Dunnigan (1906-1983) was the first African American woman to break the color and gender barriers of national journalism. During her time as a journalist, she reported for the Louisville Defender and Chicago Defender, and was a member of the Negro Associated Press. Dunnigan has been inducted into the Kentucky Hall of Fame for Journalism (1982) and for Human Rights (2010), and in 2013 was inducted into the National Association of Black Journalists...
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | First edition. | Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights | 239 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm | English | Available
Central - Kids Nonfiction J 973.30922 WOELF |
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This book provides the chance for young readers to learn about the death-defying attempts of black Americans to gain the inalienable rights promised in the Declaration of Independence.
Step into the shoes of thirteen men and women of color, and discover how the American Revolution rattled the chains of slavery. Woelfle examines the death-defying attempts of black Americans to gain the inalienable rights promised in the Declaration of Independence....
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
305.800973 COATE
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305.800973 COATE
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305.800973 COATE
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015] | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English | Available
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 305.800973 COATE Central - Adult Nonfiction has 5 305.800973 COATE Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 305.800973 COATE |
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CD 305.800973 COATE
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio : | 3 audio discs (3 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
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Central - Adult Audiobooks has 3 CD 305.800973 COATE |
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| Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Online OverDrive Collection has 40
| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2015 | OverDrive | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Online OverDrive Collection has 40 |
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Online OverDrive Collection has 40
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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Central - Adult Large Type
LT 305.800973 COATE
Westover - Adult Large Type
LT 305.800973 COATE
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale Cengage Learning | 337 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type LT 305.800973 COATE Westover - Adult Large Type LT 305.800973 COATE |
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him--most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear ... In [this book], Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings--moments when he discovered some new truth...
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DVD DRAMA BIRTH
Glencarlyn - Adult DVD
DVD DRAMA BIRTH
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2017] | Widescreen ed. | 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Adult DVD has 2 DVD DRAMA BIRTH Glencarlyn - Adult DVD DVD DRAMA BIRTH |
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Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016?] | First edition. | Atlantic Monthly Press | viii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography has 2 B CALHOUN FAMILY |
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In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley-daughter of actress Lena Horne-delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African-American family from Civil War to Civil Rights. Beginning with her great-great grandfather Moses Calhoun, a house slave who used the rare advantage of his education to become a successful businessman in post-war Atlanta, Buckley follows her family's two branches: one that stayed in the...
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2016. | Columbia University Press | xviii, 204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 796.323 WOODB |
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2015. | First edition. | Picador | 294 pages : portrait ; 24 cm. | English |
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2015] | Unabridged. | Recorded Books | 7 audio discs (8 hr., 45 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Audiobooks CD 610.92 TWEED |
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"One doctor's passionate and profound memoir of his experience grappling with race, bias, and the unique health problems of black Americans. When Damon Tweedy begins medical school,he envisions a bright future where his segregated, working-class background will become largely irrelevant. Instead, he finds that he has joined a new world where race is front and center. The recipient of a scholarship designed to increase black student enrollment, Tweedy...
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
364.134 TYSON
Central - Adult Nonfiction
364.134 TYSON
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364.134 TYSON
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017. | Simon & Schuster | x, 291 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction 364.134 TYSON Central - Adult Nonfiction 364.134 TYSON Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction has 3 364.134 TYSON |
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| Pub. Date | Source | Edition | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Unabridged | Dreamscape Media, LLC | English | Available Online
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| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017 | OverDrive | Simon & Schuster | English | Available Online
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LT 364.134 TYSON
Columbia Pike - Adult Large Type
LT 364.134 TYSON
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2017. | Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction | 527 pages (large print) ; 23 | English | Available
Central - Adult Large Type LT 364.134 TYSON Columbia Pike - Adult Large Type LT 364.134 TYSON |
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* Longlisted for the National Book Award * Winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award * A New York Times Notable Book * A Washington Post Notable Book * An NPR Best Book of 2017 * A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017 * An Atlanta Journal-Constitution Best Southern Book of 2017 *
This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the...
This extraordinary New York Times bestseller reexamines a pivotal event of the civil rights movement—the...
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Central - Adult Biography
B MASON C
Glencarlyn - Adult Biography
B MASON C
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2016. | First edition. | St. Martin's Press | 242 pages ; 25 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography B MASON C Glencarlyn - Adult Biography B MASON C |
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"'Standing on the stage, I felt exposed and like an intruder. In these professional settings, my personal experiences with hunger, poverty, and episodic homelessness, often go undetected. I had worked hard to learn the rules and disguise my beginning in life ... ' So begins C. Nicole Mason's powerful memoir, a story of reconciliation, constrained choices and life on the other side of the tracks. Born in the 1970s in Los Angeles, California, Mason...
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2017] | Rowman & Littlefield | 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 200.89 HARVE |
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J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| c2014. | Nancy Paulsen Books | 336 pages : illustrations, portraits, genealogical tables ; 22 cm. | English | Available
Central - Kids Nonfiction has 2 J 811 WOODS Cherrydale - Recently Returned J 811 WOODS Westover - Kids Nonfiction J 811 WOODS |
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J/CD 811 WOODS
Columbia Pike - Kids Audiobooks
J/CD 811 WOODS
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2014] | Unabridged. | Listening Library | 4 audio discs (3 hr., 56 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available
Central - Kids Audiobooks has 2 J/CD 811 WOODS Columbia Pike - Kids Audiobooks J/CD 811 WOODS |
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| OverDrive | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | Checked Out
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| Pub. Date | Source | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2014 | OverDrive | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Language | Availability | |
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| 2014 | Penguin Young Readers Group | English | Available Online
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
323.042 PHILL 2018
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
323.042 PHILL
| Pub. Date | Edition | Phys Desc. | Availability | |
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| 2018. | Revised and updated edition. | xxxiii, 268 pages : charts ; 22 cm | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 323.042 PHILL 2018 | |
| ©2015. | xix, 247 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | Available
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 323.042 PHILL |
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2003] | Citadel Press | x, 262 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm | English | Available
Westover - Adult Nonfiction 641.59296 TILLE |
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YB BILES S
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YB BILES S
| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| ©2016. | Zondervan | 250 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Biography YB BILES S Columbia Pike - Teen Biography YB BILES S |
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"Simone takes you through the events, challenges, and trials that carried her from an early childhood in foster care to a coveted spot on the 2016 Olympic team" --
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
791.12 TAYLO
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
791.12 TAYLO
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2012] | First edition. | W. W. Norton | xvi, 364 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Nonfiction 791.12 TAYLO Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction 791.12 TAYLO |
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| Pub. Date | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2016] | Sentinel | viii, 212 pages, 8 pages of black and white plates : illustrations ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography B CARSON FAMILY |
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"Like most Americans, you might think of Ben Carson as a trailblazing brain surgeon and, in the last few years, as an outspoken commentator on national issues. But his wife of more than forty years knows him as so much more: a loving husband, a devoted father, a devout Christian, a committed philanthropist, and a fierce patriot. Now Candy Carson introduces us to the private side of a very public figure as she shares the inspiring story of their marriage...
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YF LATHA
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YF LATHA
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2017. | First edition. | Little, Brown and Company | 371 pages ; 22 cm | English | Available
Central - Teen Fiction YF LATHA Columbia Pike - Teen Fiction YF LATHA |
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"When Rowan finds a skeleton on her family's property, investigating the brutal, century-old murder leads to painful discoveries about the past. Alternating chapters tell the story of William, another teen grappling with the racial firestorm leading up to the 1921 Tulsa race riot, providing some clues to the mystery"--
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| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| 2016. | First Atria books hardcover edition. | Atria Books | xii, 292 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, genealogical table ; 24 cm | English | Available
Central - Adult Biography has 2 B BRANAN K |
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"In the tradition of Slaves in the Family, the provocative true account of the hanging of four black people by a white lynch mob in 1912--written by the great-granddaughter of the sheriff charged with protecting them. Harris County, Georgia, 1912. A white man, the beloved nephew of the county sheriff, is shot dead on the porch of a black woman. Days later, the sheriff sanctions the lynching of a black woman and three black men; all of them innocent....
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Central - Kids Biography
JB LOWE A
Westover - Kids Biography
JB LOWE A
| Pub. Date | Edition | Publisher | Phys Desc. | Language | Availability | |
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| [2017] | First edition. | Little Bee Books | 35 pages : color ; 29 cm | English | Available
Central - Kids Biography JB LOWE A Westover - Kids Biography JB LOWE A |
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"As soon as Ann Cole Lowe could walk, her momma and grandma taught her to sew. When her mom died, Ann continued sewing dresses. It wasn't easy, especially when she went to design school and had to learn alone, segregated from the rest of the class. But the work she did set her spirit soaring, as evidenced in the clothes she made. Rarely credited, Ann Cole Lowe became "society's best kept secret." This beautiful picture book shines the spotlight on...
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