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-- Twenty-eight days2015., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: JNF007000 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines twenty-eight days of great importance to African American history, from the shooting of young slave Crispus Attucks in 1770 up through the inauguration of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2009.
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-- Twenty-eight days2015., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 973.04 SMI Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Examines twenty-eight days of great importance to African American history, from the shooting of young slave Crispus Attucks in 1770 up through the inauguration of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2009.
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-- Five thousand miles to freedomc2006., Juvenile, National Geographic Call No: 973.71 FRA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a detailed account of Ellen and William Craft's daring escape from slavery in 1848, and describes the institution of slavery in the South along with the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad.
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c2012., Pre-adolescent, Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: HI-INT 920 FRE Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biographies of two men who met briefly and whose ideas helped end the Civil War, reunite the United States, and end slavery. .
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-- Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass[2012], Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Looks at the lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, including their friendship and their affect on emancipation and the Civil War.
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-- Aprille Ericsson[2015], Pre-adolescent, Lerner Publications Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: STEM trailblazer biosSummary Note: A look at the life and work of aerospace engineer Aprille Ericsson.
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[2015]., Lerner Publications Call No: B ERI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: STEM trailblazer biosSummary Note: Ericsson was one of the few girls in her middle school who loved math and science. Years later, she became the first woman to receive a PhD in mechanical engineering from Howard University. At NASA, she's helped build spacecraft that can map the moon, monitor climate change, or even bring soil and rocks back from Mars. Learn how Ericsson's passion for science has helped her pave the way for future engineers.
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-- African American centuryc2000., Simon & Schuster Call No: B Edition: Free Press edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An illustrated, decade-by-decade collection of biological profiles of significant African-Americans, from W.E.B. DuBois to Tiger Woods.
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2004., ABC-CLIO Call No: Ref 355.0092 Sut Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Places the African American in the context of four hundred years of military history of the United States.
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1995., Juvenile, Enslow Publishers Call No: 921 WALKER Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: People to knowSummary Note: Describes the life of the author and activist, from her childhood in Georgia to her emergence as a subject of both adulation and controversy.
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[2017]., Pre-adolescent, Compass Point Books, a Capstone imprint Call No: 796.48 BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Captured history.Summary Note: Examines the controversy surrounding an image of an angry Muhammad Ali standing over his fallen opponent Sonny Liston in 1965.
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-- Madam C. J. Walker.[2017]., Blue River Press Call No: B WAL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Madam C. J. Walker was born on a southern plantation; the first in her family bo be born free. Her parents, former slaves, could not afford to send her to school. That didn't stop her from becoming America's first female self-made millionaire"--Back cover.
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2001., Random House Call No: 973.01 BUC Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the history of African-American military service, describing military racial policies and the everyday experiences of Black soldiers, and draws from interviews with veterans spanning a century of combat.
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[2016]., Juvenile, Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights Call No: 920 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: This engaging book provides a chance for young readers to learn about the death-defying attempts of black Americans to gain the inalienable rights promised in the Declaration of Independence.
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2006., Juvenile, Albert Whitman Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Biography of a little slave girl whipped for eating an apple, who later grew up to become a famous "conductor" for the underground railroad.
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2005., Greenwood Press Call No: 921 ASHE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Greenwood biographiesSummary Note: Presents a brief biography of tennis player, Arthur Ashe, and includes information on his childhood in the segregated South, chronicling his rise to the top of the tennis world.
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[2008]., Juvenile, Dragonfly Books Call No: 323 .092 MICHELSON Edition: First Dragonfly Books edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Describes the friendship between Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Rabbi Abraham Heschel who turned their dark human experiences into a message of hope, love, and equality while working together for freedom.
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2006., Crown Publishers Call No: 973.04 OBA Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Senator Obama calls for a different brand of politics--a politics for those weary of bitter partisanship and alienated by the "endless clash of armies" we see in Congress and on the campaign trail; a politics rooted in the faith, inclusiveness, and nobility of spirit at the heart of our democracy.
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c2006., Crown Publishers Call No: 973 Oba Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Summary Note: Senator Barak Obama addresses twenty-first century politics in the United States, commenting on economic insecurities of citizens, race, religion, terrorism, threat of a pandemic, and other related issues.
