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-- Twelve years a slave[2014]., [Publisher not identified] Call No: DVD Edition: [English/Spanish/Fr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to contact his family, and fearing for his life if he told the truth, Solomon Northup was sold from plantation to plantation in Louisiana, toiling under cruel masters for twelve years before meeting Samuel Bass, a Canadian who finally put him in touch with his family, and helped start the process to regain his freedom.
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1998, c1968., Vintage Books Call No: DRAMA Edition: 1st Vintage Interna Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A powerful drama vibrant with African-American church music and filled with the pain and anger of racial injustice.
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By Johnson, Broderick Kosove, Andrew A Netter, Gil Hancock, John Lee Bullock, Sandra McGraw, Tim Aaron, Quinton Head, Jae Collins, Lilly McKinnon, Ray Dickens, Kim, 1965- Lenox, Adriane Bates, Kathy, 1948- Dyer, Catherine Stahl, Andy Burwell, Carter Lewis, Michael. Blind side Alcon Entertainment (Firm) Zucker/Netter Productions (Firm) Warner Home Video (Firm)[2010], Distributed by Warner Home Video Call No: Literature & Language Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with the help of his coaches and adopted family, becomes an All-American offensive left tackle.
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By Uhry, Alfred1988, c1987., Theatre Communications Group Call No: DRAMA Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents the script of the play "Driving Miss Daisy," the story of the strong bond that develops over the course of twenty-five years between an elderly Jewish widow and her chauffeur, an African-American man.
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[2003]., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
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-- Ernie Davis storyBy Fleder, Gary Leavitt, Charles Davis, John (John Andrew), 1954- Dauchy, Derek Schmidt, Arne L Morgenthau, Kramer Quaid, Dennis Brown, Rob, 1984- Miller, Omar Benson Ellis, Aunjanue Brown, Clancy Henson, Darrin Dewitt Rubinek, Saul, 1948- Ellis, Nelsan Dutton, Charles S Isham, Mark Gallagher, Robert C. Ernie Davis Universal Pictures Company Davis Entertainment Coc2009., General, Universal Studios Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 921 DAVIS Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Witness the inspirational true story of a real American hero, Ernie Davis. Rising from humblest of beginnings, Ernie Davis overcame impossible odds to become the first African-American to win college football's greatest honor-the Heisman Trophy.
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c1986., Plume Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Troy Maxson, a strong, hard man who has learned how to be Black and proud in the 1950s, finds the changing spirit of the 1960s hard to deal with.
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2007., Theatre Communications Group Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Edition: 1st ed. Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: A play by August Wilson in which Aunt Ester, the 285-year-old matriarch of a African-American family, helps two young men start their lives over in 1904.
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c2006., General, Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment Call No: DVD FIC GLO Edition: [Standard format]. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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[2008]., General, Genius Products, Inc. Call No: DVD FIC THE Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
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By Green, Brunson Columbus, Chris Barnathan, Michael Taylor, Tate Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981- Tyson, Cicely Stone, Emma, 1988- Chastain, Jessica Vogel, Mike Spencer, Octavia Davis, Viola Spacek, Sissy Janney, Allison Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945- Winborne, Hughes Newman, Thomas, 1955- Stockett, Kathryn. Help Dreamworks Pictures Participant Media Imagenation Abu Dhab[2011]., Touchstone Home Entertainment Call No: Literature & Language Availability:0 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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-- Les figures de l'ombre[2017], Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Edition: [English/Spanish/Fr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
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[2017]., General, Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 791.43 Hid Edition: Widescreen. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Follows three African American women working as human computers for NASA during the space race of the 1950s and 1960s.
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[2017], Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD 791.43 HID Edition: [English/Spanish/Fr Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
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Ã2000., The Overlook Press Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: A play by August Wilson that captures the experiences of African-Americans in the 1970s.
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2003, c1979., Overlook Press Call No: DRAMA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A play by August Wilson that captures the experiences of African-Americans in the 1970s.
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[1988]., New American Library Call No: DRAMA NF WIL Availability:3 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: When Herald Loomis arrives at an African-American Pittsburgh boardinghouse, after seven years' impressed labor on Joe Turner's chain gang, he is a free man--in body.
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2005., Juvenile, Sweet Blackberry LLC Call No: 791.43 72 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: " . . . takes a magical look at the historic true tale of slave Henry Box Brown, a man who mailed himself to freedom in a wooden box from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia to freedom in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1848 . . . . With the help of characters including Bird, Horse, Cricket and Cat, Henry avoids being discovered and makes his way to freedom. While on his dangerous and exciting journey, Henry shares what freedom means to him and why slavery is wrong."--Container.
