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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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Westover - Kids Nonfiction
J 973.30922 WOELF
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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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Central - Adult Nonfiction
305.800973 COATE
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305.800973 COATE
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Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
305.800973 COATE
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305.800973 COATE
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Aurora Hills - Adult Nonfiction
305.800973 COATE
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305.800973 COATE
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
305.800973 COATE
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305.800973 COATE
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Cherrydale - Adult Nonfiction
305.800973 COATE
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305.800973 COATE
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
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Central - Adult Audiobooks
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Central - Adult Large Type
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Ta-Nehisi Coates offers a framework for understanding our nation's history and current crisis. Americans have built an empire on the idea of "race," a falsehood that damages us all but falls most heavily on the bodies of black women and men -- bodies exploited through slavery and segregation, and, today, threatened, locked up, and murdered out of all proportion. What is it like to inhabit a black body and find a way to live within it? And how can...
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Central - Adult DVD
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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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Central - Adult Biography
B CALHOUN FAMILY
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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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Central - Adult Nonfiction
796.323 WOODB
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796.323 WOODB
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
CD 610.92 TWEED
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Shirlington - Adult Audiobooks
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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 AmericansWhen 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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In 2014, protesters ringed the White House, chanting, "How many black kids will you kill? Michael Brown, Emmett Till!" Why did demonstrators invoke the name of a black boy murdered six decades before? In 1955, white men in the Mississippi Delta lynched a fourteen-year-old from Chicago named Emmett Till. His murder was part of a wave of white terrorism in the wake of the 1954 Supreme Court decision that declared public school segregation unconstitutional....
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Central - Adult Biography
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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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Central - Adult Nonfiction
200.89 HARVE
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200.89 HARVE
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Central - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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Columbia Pike - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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Shirlington - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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Central - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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Columbia Pike - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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Shirlington - Kids Nonfiction
J 811 WOODS
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J 811 WOODS
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Central - Kids Audiobooks
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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
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323.042 PHILL
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Westover - Adult Nonfiction
323.042 PHILL 2018
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323.042 PHILL 2018
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Westover - Adult Nonfiction
323.042 PHILL 2018
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323.042 PHILL 2018
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
323.042 PHILL
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323.042 PHILL
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Central - Adult Nonfiction
641.59296 TILLE
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641.59296 TILLE
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Cherrydale - Teen Biography
YB BILES S
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YB BILES S
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Westover - Teen Biography
YB BILES S
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YB BILES S
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Cherrydale - Teen Biography
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Westover - Teen Biography
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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 Biography
B CARSON FAMILY
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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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Central - Teen Fiction
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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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Central - Adult Biography
B BRANAN K
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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
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JB LOWE A
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Westover - Kids Biography
JB LOWE A
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JB LOWE A
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Central - Kids Biography
JB LOWE A
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JB LOWE A
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Westover - Kids Biography
JB LOWE A
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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...