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Born in Missouri in 1928, Maya Angelou had a difficult childhood. Jim Crow laws segregated blacks and whites in the South. Her family life was unstable at times. But much like her poem, "Still I Rise," Angelou was able to lift herself out of her situation and flourish. She moved to California and became the first black and first female streetcar operator before following her interest in dance. She became a professional performer in her twenties and...
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The culmination of a unique achievement in modern American literature: the six volumes of autobiography that began more than thirty years ago with the appearance of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there...
A Song Flung Up to Heaven opens as Maya Angelou returns from Africa to the United States to work with Malcolm X. But first she has to journey to California to be reunited with her mother and brother. No sooner does she arrive there...
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2020]
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vii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Malcolm X called Fannie Lou Hamer "America's Freedom Fighting Woman." Maegan Parker Brooks's ... nonfiction account of this legendary civil rights activist combines research called from over twenty archival and private collections across seven states with fifteen years of oral history interviews that Brooks conducted with Hamer's friends, family, and fellow activists." --
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PBS
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 DVD (114 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Examines the life and legacy of African American poet, memoirist, and civil rights worker Maya Angelou, from her upbringing in the Depression-era South to her work with Malcolm X in Ghana to the recitation of her inaugural poem for President Bill Clinton. Includes Angelou's own words woven together with archival photographs and videos as well as interviews with Angelou's friends and family.
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Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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48 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
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English
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"In the late 1800s and early 1900s, mobs of white people killed thousands of African Americans in the United States. These killings were called lynchings. Mobs lynched Black people for minor or perceived insults. Often the victims had not committed a crime. But they did not receive a fair trial. White people used lynchings to control and oppress Black people. Black journalist Ida Wells was one of the first to investigate lynchings. She researched...
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Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
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First edition.
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
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English
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Long before the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 60s, Ella Baker worked to lift others up by fighting racial injustice and empowering poor African Americans to stand up for their rights. Her dedication and grassroots work in many communities made her a valuable ally for leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and she has been ranked as one of the most influential women in the civil rights movement. In the 1960s she worked to register voters...
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Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"In this first scholarly biography of Lorraine Hansberry (1930-1965), the author of A Raisin in the Sun, theater professor Soyica Colbert considers the playwright's life at the intersection of art and politics, with the theater operating as a 'rehearsal room for [her] political and intellectual work.' Colbert argues that the success of Raisin overshadows Hansberry's other contributions, including the writer's innovative journalism and lesser known...
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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237 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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The Hughes-Rogers Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University provides powerful insight into the extraordinary life of the author of A Raisin in the Sun. A revealing portrait of one of the most gifted, charismatic, and least understood Black artist-intellectuals of the twentieth century.
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Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
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48 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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English
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"Fannie Lou Hamer was an influential African American activist in the 1960s and 1970s. She fought for African Americans' civil rights, including the right to vote. Fannie Lou Hamer: Civil Rights Activist explores her life and legacy"--Publisher's website.
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English
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"The true story of Black activist Opal Lee and her vision of Juneteenth as a holiday for everyone will inspire children to be brave and make a difference. Growing up in Texas, Opal knew the history of Juneteenth, but she soon discovered that most Americans had never heard of the holiday that represents the nation's creed of "freedom for all.""--
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McFarland & Co
Pub. Date
[2011]
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x, 199 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
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English
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"This book commemorates and explores the life of one of Mississippi's great civil rights activists, Fannie Lou Hamer. Known for her daring, her brinkmanship and her impassioned speech-making, Hamer rose to prominence in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, an intrepid group which tried to unseat the predominantly white Democrats of Mississippi during the 1964 Democratic National Convention"--Provided by publisher.
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Beacon Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xix, 181 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"Despite her limited material resources and the myriad challenges she endured as a Black woman living in poverty in Mississippi, Hamer committed herself to making a difference in the lives of others. She refused to be sidelined in the movement and refused to be intimidated by those of higher social status and with better jobs and education. In these pages, Hamer's words and ideas take center stage, allowing us all to hear the activist's voice and...
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