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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xxvii, 407 pages, 8,8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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"Hafizah Augustus Geter disrupts the myths of America's origins and contemporary America through her experiences as the queer Nigerian-born daughter of a Muslim Nigerian woman and a Black American man from a Southern Baptist family in Jim Crow Alabama. A unique combination of gripping memoir and Afrofuturist thought, The Black Period follows Hafizah on a journey that tells her at every turn she's not worthy. At the same time, she manages to sidestep...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xvi, 400 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
""A fresh new perspective that will be a true revolution to readers and will open new lines of discussion on . . . the importance of the city of New Orleans for generations to come." --Dr. Michael White, jazz clarinetist, composer, and Keller Endowed Chair at Xavier University of LA An untold authentic counter-narrative blues history and the first written by an African American blues artist All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War may be over, but times are not substantially improved for the freed Black citizens of Walkerton, Georgia, who are shunned by the white folks of the surrounding towns. One day, though, ol' Rootilla Redgums and her grandson, Julius Jefferson, arrive. Rootilla teaches the citizens of Walkerton how to make all sorts of beautiful things, and the white people can't get enough. But some aren't so happy. When a hooded mob threatens to burn...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
404 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents the inside story of the making of one of the most important and influential TV shows in history and of its legacy as the film that reframed the entire history of the Civil Rights movement permanently.
"In January 1987, people across America were riveted by a startling new television series about the civil rights era. Moving beyond telegenic black leaders and white politicians, Eyes on the Prize introduced ordinary people--mostly African...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xi, 258 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
No Justice is the harrowing story of Robbie Tolan, who early on one New Year's Eve morning, found himself being rushed to the hospital. A white police officer had shot him in the chest after mistakenly accusing him of stealing his own car... while in his own driveway. In a journey that took nearly a decade, Tolan and his family saw his case go before the United States Supreme Court in a groundbreaking decision, while Tolan struggled with how to put...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Most people have heard about Rosa Parks's brave actions that led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955. But there were other Black women who challenged segregation in transportation. Three years earlier, Sarah Keys Evans-a veteran-refused to give up her seat on a bus traveling through the South. With key biographical information and related historical events, this Capstone Captivate book will uncover Evans's story and show how it connects to Parks's...
4587) Martin Luther King Jr
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Martin Luther King, Jr., the inspiring minister and civil rights activist.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Here is the riveting dual biography of two little-known but extraordinary men in Civil War history George E. Stephens and James Henry Gooding. These Union soldiers not only served in the Massachusetts 54th Infantry, the well-known black regiment, but were also war correspondents who published eyewitness reports of the battlefields. Their dispatches told the truth of their lives at camp, their intense training, and the dangers and tragedies on the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
48 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 32 cm
Language
English
Description
Lala, Babyboy, and their parents struggle to cope with the loss of their home to Hurricane Katrina, but find joy again in the celebration of Mardi Gras. Includes facts about Hurricane Katrina and glossary.
Author
Series
Simon B. Rhymin' volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Simon joins the basketball team, he is excited to be a part of a neighborhood tradition, but after some of his teammates leave for a better team, he decides to organize a pep rally to help Creighton Park and the community feel like they are part of something special.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
x, 309 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deeply moving work of narrative nonfiction on the tragic shootings at the Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina. On June 17, 2015, twelve members of the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina welcomed a young white man to their evening Bible study. He arrived with a pistol, 88 bullets, and hopes of starting a race war. Dylann Roof's massacre of nine innocents during their closing prayer horrified the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
x, 237 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case-- the first to use the words "white supremacy" to describe such racism. Drawing...
4594) Armstrong & Charlie
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school senior Harriet is still grabbling with her mother's death when an unwanted property sale causes her to join forces with her new neighbor to stop Belle Grove Plantation from turning into a wedding venue.
Harriet Douglass lives with her historian father on an old plantation in Louisiana, which they have transformed into one of the South's few enslaved people's museums. Mother and daughter duo Claudia and Layla Hartwell plan to turn the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
475 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 x 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This expansive collection of essays on nearly 200 works in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art is the first substantial exploration of MoMA's uneven historical relationship with black artists, black audiences and the broader subject of racial blackness. By addressing these subjects through the consideration of works produced either by black artists or in response to race-related subjects, 'Among Others' confronts two kinds of truth: one plainly...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This is the true story of a friendship that shot for the Moon. Mary solves tricky math problems to help launch astronauts into space. But as a Black woman, she faces many obstacles that her colleagues don't. When she meets Kaz, a fellow NASA scientist, he helps Mary find strength in her talent. Together, Mary, Kaz, and everyone at NASA are about to do the impossible . . ."--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 26 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of Washington, D.C., through the story of an African American man, Michael Shiner, who lived there from approximately 1804 to 1880 and who kept a journal, excerpts of which are interspersed5 throughout the heavily illustrated text"--
4599) Follow me down to Nicodemus town: based on the history of the African American pioneer settlement
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 unpaged volume : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When Dede sees a notice offering land for black people in Kansas, her family decides to quit sharecropping and become homesteading pioneers.
4600) Juba!
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In Five Points, New York, in the 1840s, African American teenager William Henry "Juba" Lane works hard to achieve his dream of becoming a professional dancer but his real break comes when he is invited to perform in England. Based on the life of Master Juba; includes historical note.
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