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6) Ida B. Wells
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First Aladdin hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
142 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents the life and accomplishments of the activist, educator, writer, journalist, suffragette, and pioneering voice against the horrors of lynching who set out to better the lives of African-Americans long before the Civil Rights Movement.
Author
Language
English
Description
Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated. Born from an affair and an unplanned pregnancy, Morial was raised largely by her father and his family, and grew up with no knowledge of her mother. Here she tells the candid and deeply personal story of her mother's abandonment-- and how the search for answers forced her to reckon with her own identity and the secrets that shaped her family for five decades. Now an award-winning journalist and co-host of...
Author
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose fifty-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US, covering a wide swath of media history--from the era of game-changing Negro newspapers like the Chicago Defender to the civil rights movement, feminism, and our current imperfect diversity.
Author
Publisher
One Signal Publishers/Atria
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First One Signal Publishers/Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
vii, 168 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Written by her great-granddaughter, a historical portrait of the boundary-breaking civil rights pioneer covers Wells' early years as a slave, her famous acts of resistance, and her achievements as a journalist and anti-lynching activist.
Author
Publisher
Hill and Wang
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women's rights advocate, and journalist. Wells's refusal to accept any compromise on racial inequality caused her to be labeled a "dangerous radical" in her day but made her a model for later civil rights activists as well as a powerful witness to the troubled racial politics of her era. In the richly illustrated To Tell the Truth Freely, the historian...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
34 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring picture book biography of Ida B. Wells--who was an educator, journalist, feminist, businesswoman, newspaper owner, public speaker, suffragist, civil rights activist, and women's club leader--as told by her great-granddaughter, Michelle Duster"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 343 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sharing her storied career spanning five decades, an Emmy Award-winning journalist presents this collection of reportage, from the Civil Rights Movement through the election and inauguration of America's first black president and beyond, chronicling the black experience through trials, tragedies and triumphs and everyday lives.
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Pub. Date
©2010
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 238 pages) : portraits.
Language
English
Description
Belva Davis covered many of the most explosive stories of the last half-century, including the Black Panthers, the Jonestown massacre, the Moscone/Milk murders, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and Osama bin Laden's activities in Africa. Along the way, she encountered a cavalcade of cultural icons: Malcolm X, Frank Sinatra, James Brown, Nancy Reagan, Huey Newton, Muhammad Ali, Alex Haley, Fidel Castro, and others. Her absorbing memoir traces the trajectory...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Award-winning journalist and host of Black "Enterprise" Business Report Caroline Clarke's moving memoir of her surprise discovery of her birthmother-- Cookie Cole, the daughter of Nat King Cole-- and the relationship that blossomed between them through the heartfelt messages they exchanged on hundreds of postcards. Caroline Clarke was born in an era when adoptions were shameful, secret, and sealed. While she wondered about her biological parents,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xvi, 320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In this book, part-manifesto, part-memoir, Elaine Welteroth -- the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue -- explores what it means to come into your own, on your own terms. Welteroth climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way. In this riveting and timely memoir, he unpacks lessons on race, identity, and success from her own journey, whether navigating her way as the unstoppable...
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