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Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
251 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"This Light of Ours: Activist Photographers of the Civil Rights Movement is a paradigm-shifting publication that presents the Civil Rights Movement through the work of nine activist photographers - men and women who chose to document the national struggle against segregation and other forms within the movement. Unlike images produced by photojournalists, who covered breaking news events, these photographers lived within the movement - and documented...
142) Going north
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Physical Desc
30 pages : illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book traces the curious history of the Cornerstone Speech. Alexander H. Stephens's defense of the new Confederacy, delivered on March 21, 1861, the Cornerstone Speech was an uninhibited overture to a new nation founded on white supremacy and slavery, and an instant sensation. While the speech is widely cited, no full-length treatment of the work and its legacy exists - and it is poorly understood. Hébert examines how Stephens initially considered...
145) Golden poppies
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
281 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It's 1894. Jordan Wallace and Sadie Wagner appear to have little in common. Jordan, a middle-aged black teacher, lives in segregated Chicago. Two thousand miles away, Sadie, the white wife of an ambitious German businessman, lives in more tolerant Oakland, California. But years ago, their families intertwined on a plantation in Virginia. There, Jordan's and Sadie's mothers developed a bond stronger than blood, despite the fact that one was enslaved...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born into slavery, Dahlia never knew her mother--or what happened to her. When Dahlia's father, the owner of Vesterville plantation, takes her to work in his home as a servant, she's desperately lonely. Forced to leave behind her best friend, Bo, she lives in a world between black and white, belonging to neither. Ten years later, Dahlia meets Timothy Ross, an Englishman in need of a wife. Reinventing herself as Lily Dove, Dahlia allows Timothy to...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A group portrait of leading civil rights activists who comprised the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Draws on original sources to illuminate how these young Americans challenged the way America thinks about civil rights, politics, and moral obligations.
150) The ghost of Jim Crow: how southern moderates used Brown v. Board of Education to stall civil rights
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
x, 241 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
James Meredith engineered two of the most epic events of the American civil rights era: the desegregation of the University of Mississippi in 1962, which helped open the doors of education to all Americans; and the March Against Fear in 1966, which helped open the floodgates of voter registration in the South. Part memoir, part manifesto, A Mission from God is James Meredith's look back at his courageous and action-packed life and his challenge to...
156) Green book
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Blu-ray + DVD version ; Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African Americans. Confronted with racism and danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set aside differences to survive and thrive on the journey...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2018]
Lexile measure
890L
Physical Desc
10 books (313 pages), 1 book (417 pages), 1 audiobook (9 CDs, 11 hr.), 1 discussion guide ; in a cloth bag 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway,...
Publisher
Midwest Tape
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (742 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Argo": Acting under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.
"Birdman": A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.
"Green book": A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American...