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Author
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history of the Buffalo Soldiers, a cavalry regiment of African American soldiers, including their creation after the Civil War and their effectiveness at peacekeeping in the Wild West.
Author
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For generations, Black colleges have been essential institutions for the African American community. Their nurturing environments have not only aided in students' education and advancement. They have also offered spaces to develop racial consciousness and analyze the paradoxes embodied in American culture. The development and politicization of students on the campuses of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) has resulted in waves of...
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Recounts the life of William Powell, an African American golfer discriminated against because of his race, and how his perseverance and spirit helped him rise from a caddy to the first African American owner of a public golf course.
Author
Series
Publisher
LB Kids, an imprint of Little Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First board book edition.
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 18 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
Featuring 18 trailblazing black women in American history, Dream Big, Little One is the board book adaptation of the author's Little leaders: bold women in Black history.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since its inception as an African-American theater in 1934, the Apollo, and the thousands of entertainers who performed there, have led the way in the presentation of swing, bebop, rhythm and blues, jazz, gospel, soul, funk and hip-hop-along with the latest in dance and comedy. The Apollo has nurtured and featured thousands of artists, many of whom have become legends. The beauty they have given the world-their art-transcends the hatred, ignorance,...
Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography highlighting the early years of African American figure skater Mabel Fairbanks, who later became an Olympic coach and was inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame"--
68) Buffalo soldiers
Author
Publisher
World Book/Bolt
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
World Book edition.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Buffalo soldiers were African American troops in segregated units of the Army. They were called Buffalo soldiers by Native American Indians who were fighting against the United States after the end of the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this book you will find one-finger ball-spinning, rapid-fire mini-dribbling, and a ricochet head shot!You will find skilled athletes, expert players, and electrifying performers, all rolled into one! You will find nonstop, give-it-all-you've-got, out-to-win-it, sky's-the-limit BASKETBALL!
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 413 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
" ... Reconstruction of the ... life of a wrongfully convicted man whose story becomes an historic portrait of the Jim Crow South"--
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This illuminating documentary explores the life of a unique American artist, a man with a remarkable and unlikely biography. Bill Traylor was born into slavery in 1853 on a cotton plantation in rural Alabama. After the Civil War, Traylor continued to farm the land as a sharecropper until the late 1920s. Aging and alone, he moved to Montgomery and worked odd jobs in the thriving segregated black neighborhood. A decade later, in his late 80s, Traylor...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 211 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In We've Got To Try, O'Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving to El Paso, becoming a civil rights leader, and helping to win one of the most significant civil and voting rights victories in American history: the defeat of the all-white primary. His fight...
75) Go up for glory
Author
Publisher
Dutton, Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 212 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"From NBA legend Bill Russell, Go Up For Glory is a basketball memoir that transcends time. First published in 1965, this narrative tracing Russell's childhood in segregated America and detailing the challenges he faced as a black man, even when he was a celebrated NBA star, is both evidence of the progress made in the last fifty years, and an urgent reminder of how far we still have to go"--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"According to conventional wisdom, American women's campaign for the vote began with the Seneca Falls convention of 1848 and ended with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The movement was led by storied figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony. But this women's movement was an overwhelmingly white one, and it secured the constitutional right to vote for white women, not for all women. In Vanguard, acclaimed historian...
Author
Series
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
164 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The American political scene today is poisonously divided, and the vast majority of white evangelicals play a strikingly unified, powerful role in the disunion. These evangelicals raise a starkly consequential question for electoral politics: Why do they claim morality while supporting politicians who act immorally by most Christian measures? In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
Publisher
Norton
Language
English
Description
A new collection by a much celebrated poet, former Poet Laureate of the United States Rita Dove. From the opening sequence, "Cameos," which probes the private griefs and dreams of a working-class family, to the emblematic grace of a living legend like Rosa Parks, who acquiesced to public life in order to "serve the public good," these poems explore the intersection of individual fates with the grand arc of history. If there are heroes, Dove maintains,...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
410 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Rocket Men, sportswriter John Eisenberg offers the definitive history of Black quarterbacks in the league-men who not only shaped the history of football, but made indelible contributions to the cause of civil rights in America. As Eisenberg recounts, white coaches, scouts, and team owners long perceived Black players as unfit for the quarterback position. Believing Black athletes could not play "in thinking roles," they relegated them to running...
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