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Harriet Tubman, conductor on the Underground Railroad
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Ann Lane Petry |
A biography of the black woman whose cruel experiences as a slave in the South led her to seek freedom in the North for herself and for others through the Underground railroad. |
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Proud shoes
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Pauli Murray |
History of a family blended from slaves, free blacks, white slaveowners, Cherokee Indians, and others. |
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Silent partner
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Stephen W. Frey |
In the world of high finance, it's all about risk and return. With big risks come big rewards . . . and even bigger dangers. And no one knows this better than Stephen Frey. From the New York Times b… |
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The secret trust of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault
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Janice Sumler-Edmond |
"In this biography set in nineteenth-century Savannah, Georgia, Janice L. Sumler-Edmond resurrects the life and times of Aspasia Cruvellier Mirault, a free woman of color whose story was until now lo… |
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American Muslim women
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Jamillah Ashira Karim |
"Focusing on women, who sometimes move outside of their ethnic Muslim spaced and interact with other Muslim ethnic groups in search of gender justice, this ethnographic study of African American and … |
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The Help
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Kathryn Stockett |
Three ordinary women are about to take one extraordinary step.
Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi… |
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For the freedom of her race
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Lisa G. Materson |
"Focusing on Chicago and downstate Illinois politics during the incredibly oppressive decades between the end of Reconstruction in 1877 and the election of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1932 - a perio… |
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Harriet Tubman
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Terry Barber |
Harriet Tubman was born into slavery around 1822. Between 1850 to 1860, Harriet helped about 70 slaves escape to freedom. She relied on the Underground Railroad, a secret network of people and safe h… |
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Love prescription
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Jeffrey Roger Gardere |
Clinical psychologist Dr. Jeffrey Gardere believes that it's war out there. And as a guest on major national TV shows, and as a therapist in private practice, "Dr. Jeff" is on the front lines. He hea… |
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A gangster's girl saga
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Chunichi. |
Ceazia Devereaux, obsessed with the finer things in life, starts her own escort service where she meets Virginia druglord Vegas and enters into a dangerous world of fast money, which she finds hard t… |
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Michelle Obama
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Elizabeth Lightfoot |
Michelle Obama, brillante avocate, a eu des réserves quant à la décision de son mari, sénateur de l'Illinois, de s'engager dans la course présidentielle. Mais elle est rapidement apparue comme une pi… |
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Permission slips
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Sherri Shepherd |
Covering topics such as "It's Jesus or Jail,""Marriage, the Hard Way,""Children: The Gift You Can't Give Back," and "All the Things I Don't Know...And All the Things I Definitely Do," stand-up comedi… |
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The war before
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Wonda Jones,Safiya Asya Bukhari,Laura Whitehorn |
>*The War Before* traces Bukhari’s lifelong commitment as an advocate for the rights of the oppressed. Following her journey from middle-class student to Black Panther to political prisoner, these wr… |
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God Ain't Blind
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Mary Monroe |
Two women who've been through just about everything together are about to find out if there are some things forever friends can't fix. . .Annette Goode Davis is a survivor. Life's obstacles have ofte… |
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Goodness and mercy
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Vanessa Davis Griggs |
Gabrielle Mercedes has dreamed of being a dancer since she was a little girl. But when her life takes a very different turn, it's not the future she'd envisioned for herself. Feeling a void she can't… |
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Till you hear from me
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Pearl Cleage |
From the acclaimed Pearl Cleage, author of What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day . . . and Seen It All and Done the Rest, comes an Obama-era romance featuring a cast of unforgettable characters.Ju… |
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Playthang
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Janine A. Morris |
xii, 270 p. ; 21 cm |
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Black Girl/White Girl
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Joyce Carol Oates |
Remembering Minette Swift, the talented, assertive, 19-year-old African-American girl enrolled as a scholarship student in an exclusive, mostly white liberal arts college near Philadelphia who died u… |
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Harriet Tubman
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Corinne J. Naden |
A biography of the African American woman who spent her childhood in slavery and later worked to help other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad. |
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Jewels
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Michael Cunningham,Michael Cunningham |
Photographer Michael Cunningham (coauthor of Crowns) and author Connie Briscoe, a New York Times bestselling novelist, profile 50 women over the age of 50 who have been remarkably successful--whether… |
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