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Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Relates the true story of the Matthew and Mae Carter family, in simple text with illustrations, and how they helped to integrate an all-white school in Drew, Mississippi, in 1965, suffering years of name-calling, humiliation, and death threats.
6) John Henry
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Retells the legend of the African-American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.
Author
Publisher
Harry N. Abrams
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Presents the personal memoirs of Maritcha Remond Lyons who was born in nineteenth-century New York City and describes how she and her family escaped to Rhode Island during the 1863 Draft riots and how she overcame prejudice to become the first African-American person to graduate from Providence High School
17) Rap and hip hop
Publisher
Greenhaven Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Presents nineteen essays on the history of rap and hip-hop music and the controversies surrounding it, covering such topics as "gangsta" rap and homophobia.
Author
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In Front Line of Freedom, Keith P. Griffler shifts the focus away, from the usual emphasis placed on support operations, or "stations," run by whites along routes used to conduct fugitives into the Northern states or into Canada. Instead, he stresses the essential role of African Americans in Ohio River port communities.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004], c1983
Language
English
Description
Presents an illustrated poem in which Ntozake Shange recalls her childhood growing up in the company W.E.B. Du Bois, Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Robeson, and other great African-American men who were instrumental in changing American culture and society.
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