Books
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Tessie | Jesse Jackson | When a young girl wins a scholarship and becomes the first Negro student an an exclusive private high school in New York, she enters a new world which must be reconciled with her Harlem background. | OL16061391W |
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We the Resistance | Leo Szilard,Vito Russo,Susan B. Anthony,Henry David Thoreau,Frederick Douglass,W. E. B. Du Bois,Dulce M. Garcia,Sojourner Truth,Chief Joseph,Thurgood Marshall,Helen Keller,Ida B. Wells-Barnett,Mary "Mother" Jones,Anita Hill,Angela Y. Davis,Amy Uyematsu,Edward Abbey,Jesse Jackson,June Jordan,Dolores Huerta,Bayard Rustin | **A first-person history of nonviolent resistance in the U.S., from pre-Revolutionary America to the Trump years.** While historical accounts of the United States typically focus on the nation's m… | OL19082232W |
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Make a joyful noise unto the Lord! | Jesse Jackson | A biography of the famous black gospel singer who hoped, through her art, to break down some of the barriers between black and white people. | OL3269016W |
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Call me Charley | Jesse Jackson | A large type edition of the story of a twelve-year-old Negro boy who moves to an all-white suburban neighborhood where his parents work for a doctor and he must prove himself before the board of educ… | OL3269019W |