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973 Gates
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[2017] | First edition. | Pantheon Books | xii, 476 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available 973 Gates |
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"From one of our premier writers, scholars, and public intellectuals: a surprising, inspiring, often boldly infuriating, highly instructive and entertaining compendium of curiosities regarding African Americans. In 1934, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro was published by Joel A. Rogers, a largely self-educated black journalist and historian. Now with élan and erudition--and winning...
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973 Sixteen
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[2021] | First edition. | One World | xxxiii, 590 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available 973 Sixteen |
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Checked Out
5 copies, 45 people are on the wait list.
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2021 | OverDrive/Libby | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2021 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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[2021] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xlix, 983 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 24 cm | English | Available at another library
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"In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States.
The New York Times Magazine’s...
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2020. | Abrams Books for Young Readers | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm | English | Available at another library
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"Though not as widely known as other basketball legends, hall-of-famer Elgin Baylor was one of the game's all-time greatest players-an innovative athlete, team player, and quiet force for change. A member of the early, scrappy NBA and one of the first professional African American players, Elgin (b. 1934) played in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the Minneapolis/Los Angeles Lakers, taking risks on and off the court. Known for his acrobatic style...
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c2003 | Blue Earth Books | 32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 21 x 26 cm. | English | Available at another library
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Discusses how West Africans were taken from their homeland and brought to America as slaves, the experiences slaves had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society. Includes sidebars, recipes, and activities.
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[2014] | First edition. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm | English | Available at another library
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In 1865, members of a family start their day as slaves, working in a Texas cotton field, and end it celebrating their freedom on what came to be known as Juneteenth.
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First edition. | 308 pages ; 24 cm | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available FIC Jones | |
First paperback edition. | 317 pages ; 21 cm. | Available at another library
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[2018] | HighBridge Audio | 7 audio discs (9 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another library
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PLA Jones
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2018. | Findaway World, LLC | 1 audio media player : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available PLA Jones |
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HighBridge | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Algonquin Books | English | Available Online
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2018 | Algonquin Books | English | Available Online
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LGP Jones
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2018. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company | 471 pages (large print) ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available LGP Jones |
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Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to twelve years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft...
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c1998 | 1st ed. | Harcourt Brace | 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | Available at another library
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A fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship Amistad and the subsequent legal case argued before the Supreme Court in 1841 by former president John Quincy Adams.
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J Smith
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[2015] | First edition. | Schwartz & Wade Books | 326 pages ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 1 available J Smith |
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2015 | OverDrive/Libby | Random House Children's Books | English | Available Online
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2015 | Random House Children's Books | English | Available Online
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The world, itself, seems to bring together Henry, whose best friend died near their home in the mountains of Vermont, and Zavion, who lost his home in Hurricane Katrina, so that the boys can help each other heal.
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[2016] | First edition. | Atheneum Books for Young Readers | 410 pages ; 22 cm. | English | Available at another library
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[2016] | Unabridged. | Simon & Schuster Audio | 6 sound discs (7.25 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another library
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2016 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | English | Available Online
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Genie learns a thing or two about being brave and becoming who you are when he and his brother spend a summer away from the city with his blind grandfather in the country.
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c2001 | 1st ed. | HarperCollins | 214 p. ; 23 cm. | Available at another library
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2002, c2001 | 1st HarperTempest ed. | HarperTempest | 214 p. ; 18 cm. | Available at another library
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OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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Author Walter Dean Myers describes his childhood in Harlem in the 1940s and 1950s, discussing his loving stepmother, his problems in school, his reasons for leaving home, and his beginnings as a writer.
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c2008 | 1st ed. | Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers | [44] p. : col. ill., geneal. table ; 27 cm. | English | Available at another library
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Full-color illustrations and easy-to-follow text presents a narrative description of the life of politician Barack Obama, beginning with his childhood in Hawaii, his family, his education, and professional achievements.
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B Lewis
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[2018] | First edition. | Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers | xxviii, 171 pages : illustration ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available B Lewis |
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[2018] | Unabridged. | HarperCollins | 3 audio discs (3 3/4 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. | English | Available at another library
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MP3 B Lewis
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[2018] | Harper Audio | 1 audio disc (3 hr., 45 min.) : digital, MP3 ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available MP3 B Lewis |
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | HarperAudio | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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2018 | HarperCollins | English | Available Online
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In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston went to Plateau, Alabama, just outside Mobile, to interview eighty-six-year-old Cudjo Lewis. Of the millions of men, women, and children transported from Africa to America as slaves, Cudjo was then the only person alive to tell the story of this integral part of the nation's history. Hurston was there to record Cudjo's firsthand account of the raid that led to his capture and bondage fifty years after the Atlantic slave...
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[2021] | First edition. | Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC | 157 pages : map, genealogical table ; 22 cm | English | Available at another library
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"A memoir from Ta-Nehisi Coates, in which he details the challenges on the streets and within one's family, especially the eternal struggle for peace between a father and son and the important role family plays in such circumstances"--
14) Becoming
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B Obama
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[2018] | First edition. | Crown | xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available B Obama |
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CD B Obama
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2018. | Unabridged. | Random House Audio, Inc | 16 audio discs (19 hr.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available CD B Obama |
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2018 | OverDrive/Libby | Crown | English | Checked Out
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[2018] | First edition. | Crown | 9 books (xiii, 426 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm) | English | Available at another library
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LGP B Obama
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[2018] | First large print edition. | Random House Large Print | xvi, 675 pages (large print), 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available LGP B Obama |
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In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America, she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private. A deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily...
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PB Biography Tubman
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[2017] | First edition. | Holiday House | 1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 1 available PB Biography Tubman |
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A biography of Harriet Tubman written in verse, in which poem and watercolor come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.
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305.8 Coates
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YNF 305.8 Coates
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[2015?] | First edition. | Spiegel & Grau | 152 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available 305.8 Coates Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 1 available YNF 305.8 Coates |
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CD 305.8 Coates
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[2015] | Unabridged. | Random House Audio | 3 audio discs (approximately 210 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 inches. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available CD 305.8 Coates |
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2015 | OverDrive/Libby | Unabridged | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | OverDrive/Libby | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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2015 | Random House Publishing Group | English | Available Online
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LGP 305.8 Coates
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2016. | Large print edition. | Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning | 337 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Adult Area 1 available LGP 305.8 Coates |
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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. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
17) Bird
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c2008 | 1st ed. | Lee & Low Books Inc | [42] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm. | English | Available at another library
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Bird, an artistic young African American boy, expresses himself through drawing as he struggles to understand his older brother's drug addiction and the death of his brother and grandfather, while a family friend, Uncle Son, provides guidance and understanding.
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[2019] | Page Street Kids | 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm | English | Available at another library
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Explores the childhood and early career of the noted jazz trumpeter who gained fame performing at the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1955.
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YNF 976.6 Colbert
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[2021] | First edition. | Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 216 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm | English | On Shelf
Dorothy Alling Memorial Library - Youth Area 1 available YNF 976.6 Colbert |
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"In the early morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob marched across the train tracks in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and into its predominantly Black Greenwood District--a thriving, affluent neighborhood known as America's Black Wall Street. They brought with them firearms, gasoline, and explosives. In a few short hours, they'd razed thirty-five square blocks to the ground, leaving hundreds dead. The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating acts of racial...
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[2020] | McSweeney's | 225 pages ; 20 cm. | English | Available at another library
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"Witnessing is sacred work too. Seeing ourselves as whole and healthy is an act of pure rebellion in a world so titillated by our constant subjugation," reflects viral curator Natasha Marin, on Black Imagination. This dynamic collection of Black voices works like an incantation of origin, healing, and imagination. Born from a series of conceptual art exhibitions, the perspectives gathered here are no where near monochromatic. 'Craving nuance over...