Search Results: Returned 17 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 17
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2005., Juvenile, Lucent Books Call No: 323.11 SHA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Discusses the lives of African Americans after the Civil War and the prevalence of racism, or the belief that whites are superior in all ways to other races.
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2009., Oxford University Press Call No: Ref 973.049 Finkelman Volume 5 : U - Y includes In Availability:5 of 5 At Location(s) Summary Note: Focusing on the making of African American society from the 1896 "separate but equal" ruling of Plessy v. Ferguson up to the contemporary period, this encyclopedia traces the transition from the Reconstruction Era to the age of Jim Crow, the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Migration, the Brown ruling that overturned Plessy , the Civil Rights Movement, and the ascendant influence of African-American culture on the American cultural landscape. --publisher description.
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c2011., Juvenile, Amistad Call No: 811.54 GRE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the period of the 20th century when many African Americans left the South to make better lives for themselves in the northern states.
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c2011., Juvenile, Amistad Call No: 811 .54 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A sensitive poetic description of the hopes and fears of African American families facing the decision to move North in the early 20th century.
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2004., Lucent Books / Thomson/Gale Call No: 973.915 KAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: A travel guide toSummary Note: A visitor's guide to the restaurants, theater, arts, dancing, and jazz music of Harlem, New York, toward the end of the period known as the Harlem Renaissance, when African American arts flourished.
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c1996, Juvenile, Millbrook Press Call No: 700 .89 96073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the early twentieth-century artistic and intellectual revolution in black America.
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2001., U X L Call No: REF 974.7 HOWES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a comprehensive overview of the events and people that comprised this rich period in American history in the early twentieth century. Includes biographies of Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington, Zora Neale Hurston, Bessie Smith, W.E.B. Du Bois, and others.
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By Orr, Tamra[2019]., Juvenile, Lucent Press Call No: HI-INT 305.89 ORR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "The Harlem Renaissance was an exciting period in American history, and readers are placed in the middle of this vibrant African American cultural movement through engaging main text, annotated quotations from historical figures and scholars, and carefully selected primary sources. Eye-catching sidebars and a comprehensive timeline highlight important artists, writers, and works from the Harlem Renaissance to give readers a strong sense of this essential social studies curriculum topic. The influence of the Harlem Renaissance can still be seen in the cultural contributions of African Americans today, making this a topic that is sure to resonate with readers"--
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[2014], Juvenile, Capstone Press Call No: 974.7 100496073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: You choose: History.Summary Note: Describes the events of the Harlem Renaissance and explains its impact on arts and culture, in a book where the reader's choices reveal the historical details from three different perspectives.
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1992., Franklin Watts Call No: 323.1 HAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American experienceSummary Note: Surveys the history of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and its achievements in the civil rights movement.
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Call No: 323.11 FRE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: In United States historySummary Note: Traces the struggles of African Americans from the end of slavery through the period of Jim Crow segregation in the South, to the civil rights movement and legal equality.
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2008., Juvenile, Weigl Publisher Call No: 973 DE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African American historySummary Note: Black-and-white photographs and text discuss the social history between slavery and the civil rights movement, and cover legal discrimination, the Ku Klux Klan, Booker T. Washington, the NAACP, race riots, Harlem, military service during the World Wars, and more.
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2000., Benchmark Books / Marshall Cavendish Call No: 973.01 HAS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great journeysSummary Note: Uses the experiences of two individuals, Ada "Bricktop" Smith and Joe Jones, to present the story of the Great Migration of Southern Blacks to northern cities from the late 1800s to the years after World War I.
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c2011., Juvenile, Abdo Pub. Call No: 920 OLL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: African-American historySummary Note: An introduction to the pioneers of the the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and the struggle for equality, including Ida Wells-Barnett, Booker T. Washington, Langston Hughes, and other educators, poets, and activists.
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1995., Chelsea House Publishers Call No: 973.918 DOR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Milestones in Black American historySummary Note: During the period between 1948 and 1956 thousands of Americans went to war in Korea and Vietnam, the NAACP became active, Ralph Bunche became the first African American to win the Nobel Peace Prize and Gwendolyn Brooks became the first to receive the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, and the Supreme Court declared segregation to be illegal.
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1993., H. Holt Call No: 921 DU BOIS Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biography of civil rights movement leader W.E.B. Du Bois concentrating on the early and middle years of his long and intense career.
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1993., Raintree Steck-Vaughn Call No: 973.92 KAT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: History of multicultural AmericaSummary Note: A multicultural history of the United States, from World War II through the 1960's March on Washington, discussing the experiences of minorities and women during this period.
