Search Results: Returned 14 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 14
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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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By Gates, Henry Louis Grant, William (William R.) Kunhardt, Peter W Judd, Graham Farrell, Leslie D Sweet, Jesse Gladsjo, Leslie Asako Winfrey, Oprah Tucker, Chris, 1972- Jones, Quincy, 1933- Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara, 1944- Jemison, Mae, 1956- Jakes, T. D Carson, Ben Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950- Kunhardt Productions WNET (Television station : New York, NY) PBS Home Video2006., PBS Home Video ; Distributed by Paramount Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Edition: Widescreen format. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A compelling combination of storytelling and science, this series uses genealogy, oral histories, family stories and DNA to trace roots of several accomplished African Americans down through American history and back to Africa.
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[2017]., General, PBS Distribution Call No: DVD 960 Afr Edition: Widescreen. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Video recording surveying the 200,000-year history of human civilization in Africa, discussing the origins of human art and writing in Africa and briefly examining the great civilizations that have flourished on the continent.
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-- Uncle Tom's cabinc2007., W.W. Norton Call No: Historical FIC Stowe Edition: 1st ed. Genre: Classic Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Summary Note: Presents an annotated version of Harriet Beecher Stowe's classic novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that describes the lives of slaves and abolitionists in the 1800s, historical discussions of the Underground Railroad, slave trade, plantation life, and advertisements that were influenced by the novel.
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-- Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow[2020]., Juvenile, Scholastic Focus Call No: 973.04 Gat Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Examines the Civil War, emancipation, and the rise of Jim Crow laws in the South that impacted democratic rights for African Americans after the war and during the Reconstruction era. Discusses how white violence and racism affected civil rights progression, and draws parallels to today. Includes sidebars, black-and-white photographs and illustrations, and biographical profiles of notable individuals.
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-- Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow2019., Juvenile, Scholastic Focus Call No: 973 GATES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Shares real-life accounts from the age of Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era to explore the African American experience in post-Civil War United States.
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-- Reconstruction and the dawn of Jim Crow[2019]., Adolescent, Scholastic Focus Call No: Civil Rights NF GAT Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: American literary critic, teacher, historian, filmmaker and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates Jr. looks at America's history from 1861 to 1915, focusing on the destruction of slavery, the Reconstruction Amendments, and African-American resilience in times of racial unrest and drawing parallels to them with the early twenty-first century in the United States.
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1990., Quality Paperback Books Call No: Literature FIC HURSTON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Stories of faith, tolerance and good intentions as well as stories, songs, voodoo customs and superstitions that form the oral tradition of the American south.
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2020., Adolescent, Scholastic Focus Call No: 324.62 Gol Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Investigates the history of the Reconstruction era following the Civil War and the efforts to secure newly freed slaves and later generations of African Americans the right to vote. Explores the partisan fighting over the Constitution and legislature--with Constitutional Amendments, Reconstruction Acts, Civil Rights Acts, and Enforcement Acts being needed--to finally secure the vote for black Americans.
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2013., Penguin Books Call No: B Northup Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: Penguin classicsSummary Note: Solomon Northup tells of his life as a free man in 1808 and of his kidnapping in 1841 followed by twelve years of being a slave.
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1993., Distributed by Penguin USA, : Distributed by Penguin USA Call No: 813.52 HURSTON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Collection of essays published between 1982 and 1992 by academics, authors, and critics providing discussions and analysis of Hurston's work.
