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Young Martin's Promise
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Walter Dean Myers,Alex Haley |
Young Martin’s Promise is the story of a young Martin Luther King, Jr., and his slow awakening to the existence of segregation. As a child, Martin experiences discrimination that would motivate his e… |
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Stories Under African Skies
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Alex Haley |
Stories and music were essential to African culture and to the African American culture forcibly transplanted into the New World. This recording with a special narration by "Roots" author Alex Haley,… |
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Conversations with Roy DeCarava
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Alex Haley,Roy DeCarava |
"It starts before you snap the shutter... It starts with your sense of what's important." These are the words of Roy DeCarava, one of the foremost photographic artists of the twentieth century, contr… |
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Mama Flora's Family
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Alex Haley,David Stevens |
In the tradition of Roots and Queen, Mama Flora's Family is a sweeping epic of contemporary American history, culled from the unpublished works of award-winning writer Alex Haley. It is the poignant … |
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Alex Haley
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Alex Haley |
“Roots changed the way we think about race in this country and profoundly affected the lives of many people. We are proud to present these important and timeless works by Haley that broaden our natio… |
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Alex Haley
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Alex Haley |
Everyone knows Alex Haley as the world-renowned author of the international bestseller Roots, and as the writer who collaborated with Malcolm X on his historic autobiography. What many people don’t k… |
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Walking For Freedom
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Michael Newton,Alex Haley,Richard Kelso |
Walking For Freedom is an illustrated novel that recounts how the Montgomery, Alabama black community organized and participated in the 1955 bus boycott which ended segregation on public buses.
On… |
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A Different Kind of Christmas
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Alex Haley |
Alex Haley’s Roots is one of the world’s most beloved and important books. In A Different Kind of Christmas, the intense drama of a white Southerner and a black slave who work toward a common goal, A… |
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Alex Haley's Queen
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Stevens, David,Alex Haley,David Stevens,Jennifer Justin,Stevens, David |
Alex Haley, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Roots, tells about his great-great-grandfather who came to Alabama from Ireland, married a slave and then fathered a daughter—Haley’s grandmother, Que… |
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Mama Flora
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Alex Haley |
Le destin épique d'une famille de Noirs américains. |
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The Mountain Man And The President
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Alex Haley,Charles Shaw,David Weitzman |
The Mountain Man And The President discusses how the friendship between naturalist John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt brought about government protection of America’s wilderness.
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Literary Voices #1
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Christopher Isherwood,Robert Anton Wilson,Alex Haley,Jeffrey M. Elliott,Jessica Mitford,Richard Willard Armour |
In the first volume of this continuing series of interviews with the great writers of our time, Alex Haley talks about the genesis of Roots and how it changed his life, Christopher Isherwood discusse… |
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Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush
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Alex Haley,John Holder,James J. Rawls |
Dame Shirley and the Gold Rush relates how a series of letters, written by a woman known as Dame Shirley and published in a San Francisco magazine in 1854 and 1855, were instrumental in inciting the … |
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Never Turn Back
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Alex Haley,George Guzzi,James J. Rawls |
Never Turn Back: Father Serra’s Mission describes the life of the Spanish priest, Father Junípero Serra, who established missions in California in the late eighteenth century and discusses the lack o… |
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When Justice Failed
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Alex Haley,Steven A. Chin,David Tamura |
When Justice Failed relates the life and experiences of the Japanese American who defied the order of internment during World War II and took his case as far as the Supreme Court.
After the Japane… |
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The Tenement Writer
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Ben Sonder,Alex Haley,Meryl Rosner |
The Tenement Writer: An Immigrant’s Story follows a young Jewish immigrant from Poland as she struggles to build a new life in America and fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer.
In her native Po… |
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The Magazine Writer's Workbook
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Alex Haley,John C. Behrens |
Within The Shadowland of Dreams, Alex Haley opens with one of his main points regarding how writing requires sacrifice and dedication as follows:
"Many a young person tells me he wants to be a wri… |
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The Writing Business
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Alex Haley,John C. Behrens |
Successful writers—those who make a living writing—will tell you the real keys to such work today are selling the idea, and completing interviews to get details others don’t have. That’s why The Wri… |
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Days of Courage
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Alex Haley,Mel Williges,Richard Kelso |
Days of Courage describes the experiences of the “Little Rock Nine”, the first African American students to begin the integration of schools in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957.
In 1954, the Supreme … |
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Building A Dream
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Alex Haley,Debbe Heller,Richard Kelso |
Building A Dream describes Mary Bethune’s struggle to establish a school for African American children in Daytona Beach, Florida.
On October 3, 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened the doors to her Da… |
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