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1) Take my hand
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference, especially in her African American community. At the Montgomery Family Planning Clinic, she intends to help...
2) Mirror girls
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
As infants, twin sisters Charlie Yates and Magnolia Heathwood were separated after the lynching of their parents, who died for loving across the color line. Now Charlie is a young Black organizer in Harlem, while white-passing Magnolia is the heiress to a cotton plantation in Eureka, Georgia. When Magnolia finally learns the truth, her reflection mysteriously disappears from mirrors-- the sign of a terrible curse. In Harlem, Charlie's grandmother...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A new American classic from an astoundingly original voice in fiction, LaShonda Katrice Barnett's Jam on the Vine is a dynamic and compulsive debut novel that chronicles the life of a trailblazing African American woman journalist through the start of the twentieth century. --Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in a small Nova Scotia town settled by former slaves, [the novel] depicts several generations of one family bound together and torn apart by blood, faith, time, and fate. Structured as a triptych, Africaville chronicles the lives of three generations of the Sebolt family--Kath Ella, her son Omar/Etienne, and her grandson Warner--whose lives unfold against the tumultuous events of the twentieth century from the Great Depression of the 1930s, through...
Author
Series
Logan family volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cassie Logan, first met in Song of the Trees and Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world, a journey that takes her from Toledo to California, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, in the 60s, home to Mississippi to participate in voter registration. She is witness to the now-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the rise of the civil rights movement, preceded and precipitated...
Author
Publisher
37 INK/Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Officer Denny Rakestraw and "Negro Officers" Lucius Boggs and Tommy Smith have their hands full in a rapidly changing Atlanta. It's 1950 and racial tensions are simmering as black families, including Smith's sister, begin moving into formerly all-white neighborhoods. When Rake's brother-in-law launches a scheme to rally the Ku Klux Klan to "save" their neighborhood, his efforts spiral out of control, forcing Rake to choose between loyalty to family...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In segregated High Cotton, Texas, in 1964, the racial divide is as clear as the railroad tracks running through town. It's also where two girls are going to shake things up. This is the last summer of thirteen-year-old Corky Corcoran's childhood, and her family hires a Haitian housekeeper who brings her daughter, America, along with her. Corky is quick to befriend America and eager to share her favorite new "grown-up" novel, To Kill a Mockingbird....
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Hoping that the arrival of Freedom Riders in her town will help her community shed its antiquated views, thirteen-year-old Billie is forced to confront her own mindset when things turn tragic.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After having escaped with his family from Nazi-occupied France, Gustave finds a home in New York City, still worried about Marcel, his good friend who he left behind, and surprised to find bigotry in America, too.
11) Displacement
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II. These displacements keep occurring until Kiku finds herself stuck back in time. Living alongside her young grandmother and other Japanese-American citizens in internment camps, Kiku gets the education she never received in history class. She...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Workshop
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger to sparking civil rights protests across America, explore how Rosa Parks's powerful act earned her the title "Mother of the Civil Rights Movement." A story of resistance, strength, and unwavering spirit, this graphic novel invites readers to immerse themselves in the life of the American Civil Rights leader -- brought to life by gripping narrative and vivid full-color illustrations that jump...
13) Black history
Series
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The birth of a nation: Nat Turner is a literate American slave and preacher. His financially strained owner accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. But as Nat witnesses countless atrocities, he orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
12 years a slave: The harrowing account of a black man, born free in New York State, who was drugged, kidnapped, and sold into slavery in 1841. Having no way to...
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