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Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
"Early in the twentieth century, drawing upon the hundreds of letters written to his father by immigrants from Mecklenburg, Germany, Johannes Gillhoff created the archetypal character of Jürnjakob Swehn: the upright, honest mench who personified the German immigrant. This farmer-hero--planting and harvesting his Iowa acres, joking with his neighbors during the snowy winters, building a church with his own hands--proved so popular with the German...
5523) Dime
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Dime, a foster child in Newark, New Jersey, finds love and family as a prostitute, but when her pimp rejects her for a new girl, will Dime have the strength to leave?
5524) Lincoln's grave robbers
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tells the tale of the attempt to steal Abraham Lincoln's body out of the grave.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Witness the compelling and dramatic story of the 1963 March on Washington, where Dr. Martin Luther King gave his stirring "I Have a Dream" speech. This watershed event in the Civil Rights Movement helped change the face of America. Recounts the events when 250,000 people came together to form the largest demonstration the young American democracy had ever seen.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A bold and haunting debut story collection that follows various characters as they navigate the day-to-day perils of Jim Crow racism from Diane Oliver, a missing figure in the canon of twentieth-century African American literature. A remarkable talent far ahead of her time, Diane Oliver died in 1966 at the age of twenty-two, leaving behind these crisply told and often chilling tales that explore race and racism in 1950s and '60s America. In this...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis's Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from his fatal head wound with a borrowed towel. This kneeling man was a member of the Invaders, an activist group that was in talks with King in the days leading up to the murder. But he also had another identity: an undercover Memphis police officer reporting on the activities...
Author
Series
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The biography of Robert Smalls, a slave steamboat wheelman who navigated past Confederate forts in South Carolina and became one of the Civil War's greatest heroes. Includes text from Seven Miles to Freedom and additional sidebars."--
5533) Flower garden
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Helped by her father, a young girl prepares a flower garden as a birthday surprise for her mother.
5535) Vexed: 2 :twisted faith
Author
Series
King family volume 2
Publisher
Urban Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Reaching out to a compassionate chaplain after two years in prison for an attempt on her brother's life, Jay is rejected by a family that does not believe in her spiritual transformation, while her brother contemplates a devastating choice.
Two years of confinement in Leesworth Women's Federal Corrections Facility have taken their toll on Jay King. She's had lots of time to think about her sins, especially her failed attempt to have her brother Zach...
5536) Just an overnight guest
Author
Publisher
Dial Press
Pub. Date
c1980
Language
English
Description
When a disruptive and neglected four-year-old moves in with her family, nine-year-old Margie Carson has great difficulty adjusting.
Author
Series
Publisher
Urban Books, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"As Lucinda, LaMeka, Charice, and Trinity struggle to turn their lives around, they each hit a crossroads. Despite their surmounting troubles, they still hope for a better life. But what will they sacrifice for a chance at a life they've always dreamed of? And at what costs? Will they decide to succumb to their situations, or will they learn how to truly say Never Again, No More?"
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this genre-bending and deeply emotional memoir that mirrors the sensation of being caught between realms, the author, after the death of her father, grapples with her bipolar disorder and sets out to interrogate the very notion of recovery through the lens of figures from Japanese, Taiwanese and Okinawan legend.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her groundbreaking and essential debut The Three Mothers, scholar Anna Malaika Tubbs celebrates Black motherhood by telling the story of the three women who raised and shaped some of America's most pivotal heroes: Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Much has been written about Berdis Baldwin's son James, about Alberta King's son Martin Luther, and Louise Little's son Malcolm. But virtually nothing has been said about the extraordinary...
Author
Publisher
Temple University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1851, Elizabeth Parker, a free black child in Chester County, Pennsylvania, was bound and gagged, snatched from a local farm, and hurried off to a Baltimore slave pen. Two weeks later, her teenage sister, Rachel, was abducted from another Chester County farm. Because slave catchers could take fugitive slaves and free blacks across state lines to be sold, the border country of Pennsylvania/Maryland had become a dangerous place for most black people....
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