Search Results: Returned 20 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 20
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-- Slave tradec2008, Lucent Books Call No: 306.3 62 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Lucent library of black historySummary Note: Chronicles the history of the Atlantic Slave Trade from the late 1400s to its demise in the 1800s, discussing African participation in the capturing of slaves and slavery in Colonial America.
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c2008, Lucent Books Call No: 973.7 415 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Chronicles the four-year struggle between Southern slave states and Northern free states and the people and events responsible for emancipation of all enslaved people.
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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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c2005, Lucent Books : Thomson/Gale Call No: 323.1196 073075 09034 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Examines the history of the Jim Crow laws that were enacted during the late nineteenth century that limited the rights and privileges of African-American's, and describes the efforts of the civil rights movement in the mid-twentieth century to change those laws.
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c2006, Lucent Books : Thomson/Gale Call No: 323.1196 073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Examines the civil rights movement of the twentieth century, and discusses Jim Crow laws and segregation, desegregation of the schools, sit-in's and freedom rides, the march on Washington, and more.
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2006., Lucent Books Call No: 921 TUBMAN Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: A biography of the former slave, Harriet Tubman, who led over two hundred slaves to freedom along the underground railroad.
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c2006, Lucent Books : Thomson/Gale Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Describes abolitionist Harriet Tubman's years as a slave, her escape, and her work as a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad, through which she helped more than three hundred other slaves gain their freedom, and also discusses her experiences during the Civil War, her efforts in the women's rights movement, and the creation of the Harriet Tubman Home.
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2007., Lucent Books/Thomson Gale Call No: 921 ROBINSON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: A look at the life of the courageous man who was the first African American in Major League Baseball.
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c2007., Lucent Books Call No: 927 .96357 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: The Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Discusses the life and career of the baseball legend who became the first African American to play in the major leagues.
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c2007., Lucent Books : Thomson/Gale Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Presents a brief biography of Jackie Robinson, who broke the color barrier by becoming the first African-American to play on a major league baseball team.
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c2007., Lucent Books Call No: 364.1 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Discusses the time in history when African Americans were killed by white mobs in the South.
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c2011, Lucent Books Call No: 324.6 2 08996 073 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Photographs and text chronicle the 1965 march from Selma, Alabama, to Montgomery, in which three hundred African-Americans walked to the state capital to demand the government protect their voting rights, examining the impact of the event and profiling the people involved.
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2005., Lucent Books Call No: 973.01 CUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Descibes the history of slavery in the Southern States from the seventeenth century through the Civil War in 1865.
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2006., Lucent Books Call No: 973.71 CUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: In 1830, a group of social reformers wanted to eliminate, or abolish, the institution of slavery in the United States and it was not easy or quickly achieved.
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c2006, Lucent Books Call No: 973.7 114 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Discusses the role of the abolitionists, the fight against slavery, and the tremendous impact they made on American history.
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By Woog, Adam2006., Lucent Books : Thomson/Gale Call No: 921 CHARLES Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: A biography of Ray Charles, discussing his childhood, the strong influence of his mother, his years at a Florida boarding school for the deaf and blind, and the course of his career as a composer, pianist, and singer.
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c2008, Lucent Books Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents only Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Chronicles the events surrounding the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott that came about as a result of civil rights activist Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her seat on the bus to a white patron.
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c2007, Lucent Books : Thomson/Gale Call No: 379.2 63 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lucent library of black historySummary Note: Examines the history of segregation in America and efforts in the mid-twentieth century to challenge Jim Crow laws through the desegregation of schools.
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c2007, Lucent Books : Thomson/Gale Call No: 306.3 62 0973 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Traces slavery and five slave rebellions in America including the Amistad rebellion, Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Gabriel Prosser, and the Stono Rebellion.
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c2010, Lucent Books Call No: 342.7308 73 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Lucent library of Black historySummary Note: Examines key court cases in the fight for equality, covering topics such as racism, voting rights, affirmative action in cases such as "Scott v. Standford," "Plessy v. Ferguson," and "Brown v. Board of Education."