Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Aronson, Marc. Race : a history beyond black and white. 1st ed. New York :
Ginee Seo Books/Atheneum Books for Young Readers, c2007.
Marc Aronson traces the history of racial prejudice in the Western world
from ancient times to the present, identifying events and individuals that
have influenced people's conceptions about race.
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Osborne, Linda Barrett, 1949-. Miles to go for freedom : segregation & civil
rights in the Jim Crow years. New York : Abrams Books for Young
Readers, 2012.. Describes the lives of African Americans during the Jim
Crow years, a period of legal segregation and discrimination from the
1890s through the 1950s, including photographs and interviews with
African Americans who were young during this time and other primary
resources.
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Fradin, Judith Bloom. 5,000 miles to freedom : Ellen and William Craft's flight
from slavery. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2006.
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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Bausum, Ann. Freedom riders : John Lewis and Jim Zwerg on the front lines of
the Civil Rights Movement. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic,
c2006.
Recounts the freedom ride of John Lewis and Jim Zwerg into the South in
1961 as part of the Civil Rights Movement.
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Bowers, Rick, 1952-. Spies of Mississippi : the true story of the spy network
that tried to destroy the civil rights movement. Washington, D.C. :
National Geographic, c2010.
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Rappaport, Doreen. Nobody gonna turn me 'round : stories and songs of the
civil rights movement. 1st ed. Cambridge, Mass. : Candlewick Press,
2006.
Chronicles the events of the civil rights movement from 1954 to 1965,
and includes songs, poems, memoirs, and letters from the period.
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Aretha, David. The murder of Emmett Till. 1st ed. Greensboro, N.C. : Morgan
Reynolds Pub., c2008.
Chronicles the 1955 murder in Money, Mississippi, of Chicago teenager,
Emmett Till, by local store owner Roy Bryant and his brother-in-law, J.W.
Milam, the trial and acquittal that followed, and how the incident
impacted the civil rights movement.
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Crowe, Chris. Getting away with murder : the true story of the Emmett Till
case. New York : Dial Books for Young Readers, c2003.
Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till,
in Mississippi, in 1955.
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Stokes, John A., 1931-. Students on strike : Jim Crow, civil rights, Brown, and
me : a memoir. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008.
John A. Stokes, one of the leaders of the student strike at R. R. Morton
High School in 1951, describes the conditions in which he and his fellow
classmates learned and provides an account of how they fought against
segregation.
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Aronson, Marc. Sugar changed the world : a story of magic, spice, slavery,
freedom, and science. Boston : Clarion Books, c2010.
Songs, oral histories, maps, and more than eighty archival illustrations
help trace the history of sugar and the sugar trade.
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Sturm, James, 1965-. Satchel Paige : striking out Jim Crow. 1st ed. New York :
Hyperion/Jump at the Sun, c2007.
A graphic novel account of the career of Negro League pitcher Satchel
Paige, discussing the show he put on as a popular player, as well as the
respect he demanded as an African-American.
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Memories of sun : stories of Africa and America. 1st ed. New York :
Amistad/Greenwillow Books, c2004.
Presents a collection of short stories and poems by authors from both
continents about life in various African countries and some of the
experiences and impressions of Americans in Africa and of Africans in
America.
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Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996. The rose that grew from concrete. New York :
Pocket Books, c1999.
A collection of poems written by rap artist and actor Tupac Shakur at the
age of nineteen.
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Shange, Ntozake. Ellington was not a street. 1st ed. New York : Simon &
Schuster Books for Young Readers, [2004], c1983.
Presents an illustrated poem in which Ntozake Shange recalls her
childhood growing up in the company W.E.B. Du Bois, Dizzy Gillespie,
Paul Robeson, and other great African-American men who were
instrumental in changing American culture and society.
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Fleischman, John, 1948-. Black and white airmen : their true history. Boston,
Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Presents the true story of two men--one African-American, the other
white--who lived in the same Ohio neighborhood, went to the same
school, joined the Army Air Corps in 1941, and finally became close
friends nearly sixty years later.
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Freedman, Russell. The voice that challenged a nation : Marian Anderson and
the struggle for equal rights. New York : Clarion Books, c2004.
Tells the life story of singer Marian Anderson, describing her famous
1939 Lincoln Memorial performance and explaining how she helped end
segregation in the American arts after being refused the right to perform
at Washington's Constitution Hall because of the color of her skin.
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Hoose, Phillip M., 1947-. Claudette Colvin : twice toward justice. 1st ed. New
York : Melanie Kroupa Books, 2009.
Presents an account of fifteen-year-old Claudette Colvin, an AfricanAmerican girl who refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a
segregated bus in Montgomery, Alabama, nine months before Rosa
Parks, and covers her role in a crucial civil rights case.
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Winter, Jonah. Dizzy. 1st ed. New York : A.A. Levine, 2006.
Simple text and illustrations introduce the life of jazz musician Dizzy
Gillespie.
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the way she felt at the inauguration of Barack Obama, featuring blackand-white photographs, articles from the "New York Times," and more.
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Bolden, Tonya. M.L.K. : journey of a King. New York : Abrams Books for Young
Readers, 2007.
Profiles the life of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, and includes over
eighty illustrated photographs that describe his marches, speeches, and
non-violence philosophy.
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Fradin, Judith Bloom. Stolen into slavery : the true story of Solomon Northup,
free Black man. Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2012.
Recounts the experiences of Solomon Northup, an African American man
who was kidnapped into slavery and suffered through twelve years of
bondage before being rescued from the Louisiana cotton plantation by
friends from New York.
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Neri, Greg. Yummy : the last days of a Southside shorty. 1st ed. New York :
Lee & Low Books, c2010.
A brief biography, in graphic novel format, of Robert "Yummy" Sandifer,
an eleven-year old African American gang member from Chicago who
went on the run after shooting a young girl and was later found dead,
shot by members of his own gang.
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Fradin, Dennis B. My family shall be free! : the life of Peter Still. 1st ed. New
York : HarperCollins, c2001.
Shares the story of Peter Still, a boy left behind in slavery when his
mother decided to flee north with her baby daughters in 1806;
discussing how he was able to purchase his freedom after forty years in
bondage, and telling about his risky attempts to win freedom for his wife
and children.
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Fradin, Dennis B. Fight on! : Mary Church Terrell's battle for integration. New
York : Clarion Books, c2003.
Profiles the first black Washington, D.C. Board of Education member,
who helped to found the NAACP and organized pickets and boycotts that
led to the 1953 Supreme Court decision to integrate D.C. area
restaurants.
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Moore, Christopher, 1952-. Fighting for America : black soldiers-- the unsung
heroes of World War II. Presidio Press trade pbk. ed. New York : Ballantine
Books, 2006.
Explores the contributions of African-American soldiers in World War II,
presenting letters and oral histories from and about the Tuskegee
Airmen; soldiers at Normandy; members of the 761st Tank Battalion
under George Patton; Dorie Miller, the messman who shot down four
Sheinkin, Steve. The Port Chicago 50 : disaster, mutiny, and the fight for civil
rights. 1st ed. New York : Roaring Brook Press, 2014.
Describes the fifty black sailors who refused to work in unsafe and unfair
conditions after an explosion in Port Chicago killed 320 servicemen, and
how the incident influenced civil rights.
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Stone, Tanya Lee. Courage has no color : the true story of the Triple Nickles :
America's first black paratroopers. 1st ed.
Tells the story of America's first black paratroopers during World War II.
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Gates, Henry Louis. Life upon these shores : looking at African American
history, 1513-2008. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 2011.
Traces African American history from 1513-2008, focusing on defining
events, debates, and controversies, covering history, society, politics,
and culture, and including eight hundred images.
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Pittman, Rickey. Jim Limber Davis : a Black orphan in the Confederate White
House. Gretna, La. : Pelican Pub., 2007.
An illustrated account of Jim Limber, a slave child who was taken in by
the family of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and raised along
with the Davis children until being kidnapped by Yankees.
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