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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xiii, 272 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tubman left her family in her early 20s to escape to Philadelphia, then a hotbed of abolitionism. There she became the first and only woman, fugitive slave, and black to work as a conductor on the Underground Railroad. So successful was she in spiriting away slaves that the state of Maryland put a $40,000 bounty on her head. Within a year of starting her work, fellow slaves and Northerners began referring to Tubman as "Moses" because of how many people...
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Language
English
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The cohost of National Public Radio's "All Things Considered" set out, through original reporting, to write a book about "the hidden conversation on race" that is going on in this country. Along the way she unearthed painful family secrets that compelled her to question her own self-understanding; she traveled extensively to explore her own complex racial legacy. Her exploration is informed by hundreds of interviews with ordinary Americans and their...
Author
Publisher
Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[41] p. : col. ill. ; 30 cm.
Language
English
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Describes Tubman's spiritual journey as she hears the voice of God guiding her north to freedom on that very first trip to escape the brutal practice of forced servitude. Tubman would make nineteen subsequent trips back south, never being caught, but none as profound as this first one.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
87 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23cm
Language
English
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This beautifully illustrated New York Times bestseller introduces readers of all ages to 40 women who changed the world.
An important book for all ages, Little Leaders educates and inspires as it relates true stories of forty trailblazing black women in American history. Illuminating text paired with irresistible illustrations bring to life both iconic and lesser-known female figures of Black history such as abolitionist Sojourner Truth, pilot Bessie...
7) Finding me
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English
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This is Viola Davis' story, in her own words, and spans her incredible, inspiring life, from her coming-of-age in Rhode Island to her present day. Hers is a story of overcoming, a true hero's journey.
"In my book, you will meet a little girl named Viola who ran from her past until she made a life changing decision to stop running forever. This is my story, from a crumbling apartment in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to the stage in New York City, and...
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English
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Roxane Gay addresses the experience of living in a body that she calls 'wildly undisciplined.' She casts an insightful and critical eye over her childhood, teens, and twenties -- including the devastating act of violence that was a turning point at age 12 -- and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. With candor, vulnerability, and authority, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in the South's...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This picture book biography focuses on critically acclaimed talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who used her struggles in childhood as motivation to become "Queen of All Media.""--
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Language
English
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"These twelve telltale, connected, deeply personal essays explore, up close, the complexities and paradoxes, the haunting memories and ambushing realities, of growing up black in the South with a family name inherited from a white man, of getting a PhD from Yale, of marrying a white man from the North, of adopting two babies from Ethiopia, of teaching at a white college and living in New England today. The storytelling, and the mystery of Bernard's...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
370 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of Clarence King, a geologist who fell in love with an African-American woman and in order to avoid being charged with miscegenation lied to her, claiming he was an African-American railroad worker and eventually marrying her, but continued his professional life as Clarence King without her knowing.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
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"A picture book biography celebrating the life and contributions of Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman in Congress, who sought the Democratic nomination to be the president of the United States"--
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Series
Publisher
Project Gutenberg
Language
English
Description
Born into slavery, Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (ca. 1824-1907) rose to a position of respect as a talented dressmaker and designer to the political elite of Washington, D.C., and a confidante of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln. In this unusual memoir, Keckley offers a rare, behind-the-scenes view of the formal and informal networks that African Americans established among themselves, as well as an insider's perspective of the men who made Civil War politics...
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English
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This is the story of Condoleezza Rice-- her early years growing up in the hostile environment of Birmingham, Alabama; her rise in the ranks at Stanford University to become the university's second-in-command and an expert in Soviet and Eastern European Affairs; and finally, in 2000, her appointment as the first Black woman to serve as Secretary of State.
Author
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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"One of the most prominent voices of her generation debuts with an extraordinarily powerful memoir: the story of a childhood defined by the ever looming absence of her incarcerated father and the path we must take to both honor and overcome our origins. For as long as she could remember, Ashley has put her father on a pedestal. Despite having only vague memories of seeing him face-to-face, she believes he's the only person in the entire world who...
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
Simon Spotlight edition.
Physical Desc
47 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Meet Katherine Johnson, a brilliant mathematician who worked at NASA in the early 1950s until retiring in 1986. Katherines unparalleled calculations (done by hand) helped plan the trajectories for NASAs Mercury and Apollo missions (including the Apollo 11 moon landing). She is said to be one of the greatest American minds of all time. A section at the back of the book includes extras on subjects like history and math, plus c areers for math lovers"--Amazon.com....
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
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From 2005 to 2009 Rice served as the 66th Secretary of State under the George W. Bush administration. During that time she participated in many high-level meetings and played a crucial role in shaping policy that affected Americans and the world. Now she chronicles her years in the Bush administration, writing candidly about the people she met and the moments that tested her resolve.
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