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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
“Up from Slavery” is the 1901 autobiography of American educator Booker T. Washington (1856—1915). The book describes his experience of working to rise up from being enslaved as a child during the Civil War, the obstacles he overcame to get an education at the new Hampton Institute, and his work establishing vocational schools like the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama to help Black people and other persecuted people of color learn useful, marketable...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
xvi, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the coach of the Indianapolis Colts and the first African American football coach to lead his team to a Superbowl victory concentrates on his religious life as well as his career in football.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
86 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Profiles thirty-five prominent men in African American history, including James Armistead Lafayette, Thurgood Marshall, Alvin Ailey, and Leland Melvin.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
Description
An evocative portrait of the boxing icon centers around his historic match against Germany's Max Schmeling on the eve of World War II, a fight that reflected international tensions and a triumph against racial barriers.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
xiv, 257 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A memoir by the co-founder of the Black Lives Matter movement explains the movement's position of love, humanity, and justice, challenging perspectives that have negatively labeled the movement's activists while calling for essential political changes.
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 353 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The daughter of actress Lena Horne traces the lives of her family between two major human rights periods in America, sharing the stories of the branches of her family that lived in the North and South, and their experiences during the Jim Crow and wartime eras.
Author
Publisher
Warner Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
A successful radio personality and civil rights activist recounts his mother's murder by his father when he was five, the racism he encountered throughout his life, and his contributions to the careers of legendary musical performers.
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tony Dungy led the Indianapolis Colts to victory in Super Bowl XLI-- the first African American coach to win the big game--millions wondered, amazed by the success of his quiet, authoritative leadership style: how does he get it done? In this memoir, Dungy reveals the secrets to his success--principles, practices, and priorities that have kept him on track despite overwhelming personal and professional obstacles, including firings, stereotypes,...
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Spiegel & Grau trade pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
xiv, 250 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The author, a Rhodes scholar and combat veteran, analyzes the various sociocultural factors that influenced him as well as another man of the same name and from the same neighborhood who was drawn into a life of drugs and crime and ended up serving life in prison, focusing on the influence of relatives, mentors, and social expectations that could have led either of them on different paths.
Author
Publisher
37 INK, Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First 37 INK/Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A gripping and true story about five boys who were kidnapped in the North and smuggled into slavery in the Deep South -- and their daring attempt to escape and bring their captors to justice, reminiscent of Twelve Years A Slave and Never Caught"--
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
xv, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mitchell S. Jackson candidly explores his tumultuous youth in the other America. Survival Math takes its name from the calculations Mitchell and his family made to keep safe and to stay alive in their community, a small black neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. His was a neighborhood blighted by drugs, violence, poverty, and governmental neglect. Survival Math is both a personal reckoning and a vital addition to the national conversation about race....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir that examines rural poverty and the lingering strains of racism in the South from the viewpoint of the author, an African American woman who lost five young men dear to her through drugs, accidents and suicide. "Men We Reaped" explores the racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family relationships which ultimately led to the death of these young men and how it affected her life.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2018
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
241 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
To the Promised Land challenges the reader to think about what it would mean to truly fulfill King's legacy and move toward his vision of "the Promised Land" in our own time.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a picture book biography that chronicles the youth of Frederick Douglass, one of the most prominent African-American figures in American history.