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Teachers' Manual for African Americans in Florida
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Kevin M. McCarthy,Maxine D. Jones |
This teachers' manual is meant to accompany the text entitled African Americans in Florida. The manual includes, for each chapter, (1) the key terms that are bold-faced in the text and defined in the… |
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When Solomon sings
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Kendra Norman-Bellamy |
When he falls in love with Shaylynn Ford, a woman who also loves the Lord with all her heart, Neil Taylor, gifted with an amazing voice, finds their relationship threatened by his past as well as the… |
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Between the World and Me
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
Between the World and Me is a 2015 nonfiction book written by American author Ta-Nehisi Coates and published by Spiegel & Grau. It is written as a letter to the author's teenage son about the feeling… |
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Summer battles
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Ann R. Blakeslee |
In the summer of 1926, eleven-year-old Kath visits her grandfather Grando, the only minister in Peaceable, Indiana, and finds him the target of the local Ku Klux Klan because he employs a colored wom… |
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Looking for Red
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Angela Johnson |
A thirteen-year-old girl struggles to cope with the loss of her beloved older brother, who disappeared four months earlier off the coast of Cape Cod. |
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Tears of a tiger
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Sharon M. Draper |
The death of high school basketball star Rob Washington in an automobile accident affects the lives of his close friend Andy, who was driving the car, and many others in the school. |
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Hitler's American Model
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James Q. Whitman |
How American race law provided a blueprint for Nazi Germany. Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any… |
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How We Fight For Our Lives
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Saeed Jones |
From award-winning poet Saeed Jones, How We Fight for Our Lives—winner of the Kirkus Prize and the Stonewall Book Award—is a “moving, bracingly honest memoir” (The New York Times Book Review) written… |
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Jimi Hendrix
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Rebecca Poole |
Discusses the childhood, young adulthood, musical career, and death of Jimi Hendrix, considered by many to be the world's greatest rock-and-roll guitarist. |
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Temptation
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Victoria Christopher Murray |
Kyla and Jefferson Blake count their 16 years together as a wonderful blessing from God. Their marriage is passionate, their daughter is a joy, Jefferson's medial career is prospering and they have l… |
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Vintage Baldwin
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James Baldwin |
In his internationally acclaimed novels, short stories, plays and essays, James Baldwin was and remains a powerfully prophetic voice in the American literary landscape, fearlessly brooding upon issue… |
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Brutal Imagination
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Cornelius Eady |
This poetry collection explores the vision of the black man in white imagination, as well as the black family and the barriers of color, class, and caste that tear it apart. These two main themes sho… |
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Joshua's Masai Mask
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Dakari Hru |
Fearing that his classmates will ridicule his playing the kalimba in the school talent show, Joshua uses a magical Masai mask to transform himself into different people he thinks are more interesting… |
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Sweet, Sweet Memory
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Jacqueline Woodson |
Now that Grandpa’s gone, Sarah tries to remember what he used to say about the garden. Like us, he would tell her, a part of it never dies. Everything and everyone goes on and on. But Sarah feels ver… |
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A Love For All Seasons
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Bettye Griffin |
Alicia Timberlake was the woman of his dreams. And Jack Devlin couldn't believe his luck in finding her. But Alicia had always kept people at a distance, unwilling to let anyone-not even her family-c… |
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