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• Black Folk

  the Roots of the Black Working Class

  Kelley, Blair Murphy, 1973-

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  There have been countless books, articles, and televised reports in recent years about the almost mythic 'white working class,' a tide of commentary that has obscured the labor, and even the very existence, of entire groups of working…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Memphis, Martin, and the Mountaintop

  the Sanitation Strike of 1968

  Duncan, Alice Faye,

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  CHILDREN'S TITLE- This historical fiction picture book presents the story of nine-year-old Lorraine Jackson, who in 1968 witnessed the Memphis sanitation strike--Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s final stand for justice before his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Swans of Harlem

  Five Black Ballerinas, Fifty Years of Sisterhood, and Their Reclamation of a Groundbreaking History

  Valby, Karen,

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  A full accounting of five incredibly talented Black ballerinas from The Dance Theater of Harlem, founding members among them, that illuminates their hard-fought, historic, and overlooked contributions to the world of classical dance at a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Yonder Come Day

  Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved

  Holmes, Jasmine L.,

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  Weaving together compelling first-person accounts of formerly enslaved men and women, writer and historian shines light on the struggles, sorrows, triumphs, and hopes of real families who survived one of the darkest periods of American…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Beauty of Blackness

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  In 1973, Eunice Johnson, the founder of Ebony and Jet, launched Fashion Fair - the first national cosmetics brand created exclusively for Black women. A revolution for its time, the brand would grow to become an iconic symbol of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Stories of the Spirit of Justice

  Tisby, Jemar,

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  CHILDREN'S TITLE -We are living in the Civil Rights Movement of our day. But the challenges of the present call us to remember the past. Throughout American history, there has always been a small but resilient group of people who,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Black Box

  Writing the Race

  Gates, Henry Louis, Jr.,

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  Distilled over many years from Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s legendary Harvard introductory course in African American Studies, The Black Box: Writing the Race, is the story of Black self-definition in America through the prism of the writers…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Struggles in Steel

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  The current angry debates around affirmative action too often ignore their historical roots: how prior to government intervention African Americans were confined to the most back-breaking, dangerous and low paid work. Struggles in Steel…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Richard L. Davis and the Color Line in Ohio Coal

  a Hocking Valley Mine Labor Organizer, 1862-1900

  Doppen, Frans H., 1957-

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  One of the few African Americans at the founding convention of United Mine Workers of America in 1890, he served as one of the union's National Executive Board members.

• This Changes Everything

  a Surprisingly Funny Story About Race, Cancer, Faith, and Other Things We Don't Talk About

  Merritt, Tyler,

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  When Tyler Merritt was diagnosed with cancer, everything he thought he knew about what mattered in life changed. Though he made it through a highly invasive surgery and thought he was in the clear, Tyler soon realized that the cancer had…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Humanity Archive

  Recovering the Soul of Black History From a Whitewashed American Myth

  Fowler, Jermaine (Storyteller),

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  The Humanity Archive focuses on the overlooked narratives in the pages of the past. Challenging dominant perspectives, author Jermaine Fowler goes outside the textbooks to find recognizably human stories.

• John Lewis

  a Life

  Greenberg, David, 1968-

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  Born into poverty in rural Alabama, Lewis would become second only to Martin Luther King, Jr. in his contributions to the Civil Rights Movement. Greenberg's biography traces Lewis's life through the post-Civil Rights years, when he headed…Read moreRead more of this annotation