Books

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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The freedmen's book	l. maria child	Inspiring biographies of successful former slaves.	OL107963W
The Magical Adventures of Pretty Pearl	Virginia Hamilton	Pretty Pearl, a spirited young African god child eager toshow off her powers, travels to the New World where, disguised as a human, she lives among a band of free blacks who have created their own se…	OL11278391W
The House of Dies Drear	Virginia Hamilton	A black family tries to unravel the secrets of their new home which was once a stop on the Underground Railroad.	OL11278406W
A Different Vision	Thomas D. Boston	This work brings together for the first time the ideas, philosophies and interpretations of North America's leading African American economists, demonstrating that racial inequality has had an immens…	OL1135437W
William and the goodold days	Eloise Greenfield	A little boy remembers his grandmother before she became ill, and during her long recovery he tries to imagine how things will be when she comes home from the hospital.	OL116277W
Mama Day	Gloria Naylor	Mama day is about many things. It's the story of Ophelia and George two black American's and how they fall in love in try to reconcile their differences of upbringing and culture. It's about the dyin…	OL134426W
The treasure hunt	Bill Cosby	One rainy day while his father listens to his old records, his mother polishes a silver platter, and his brother enjoys his baseball card collection, Little Bill discovers his own treasure, a talent …	OL13577725W
Sojourner Truth	Patricia McKissack	A biography of the former slave who became well-known as an abolitionist and advocate of women's rights.	OL14860575W
Outlaw Culture	Bell Hooks	Bell hooks, one of America's leading black intellectuals, is also one of our most clear-eyed and penetrating analysts of culture. Outlaw culture--the culture of the margin, of women, of the disenfran…	OL15053153W
I love my hair!	Natasha Tarpley	A young African American girl describes the different, wonderful ways she can wear her hair.	OL16026063W
African-American folktales for young readers	Judy Dockrey Young,Young, Richard	A collection of folktales from the African-American oral tradition, presented as they have been told by professional black storytellers from Rhode Island to Oklahoma.	OL16102494W
The Black West	William Loren Katz	The American West: no period in our history has defined and shaped us more as a nation. Unique to the U.S., the Old West exerts a power on the American imagination that can still be seen in almost ev…	OL1880557W
Escape to freedom	Ossie Davis	Born a slave, young Frederick Douglass endures many years of cruelty before escaping to the North to claim his freedom.	OL1945633W
Stealing home	Mary Stolz	Though they still listen to baseball and go fishing, Thomas and his grandfather find life in their small house in Florida changed when Great-aunt Linzy comes to stay.	OL2040566W
Going to Meet the Man	James Baldwin	African-American fiction	OL228703W
Blues & gospel records, 1902-1943	Robert M. W. Dixon	The Best You Can Get !!! ALL information about Blues & Gospel recordings 1902 - 1943	OL2426434W
The Brave	Robert Lipsyte	Sonny's been an outsider all his life.He has never fit into either world: the Moscondagas on the Reservation see him as white; whites see him as Indian. So far, Sonny's managed to harness his anger —…	OL2704582W
Against racism	W. E. B. Du Bois	A collection of essays, papers, and addresses which explains the author's views on racism.	OL28567W
Another way to dance	Martha Southgate	While spending the summer at the School of American Ballet in New York City, fourteen-year-old Vicki Harris must come to terms with the reality of her parents' divorce, her crush on Mikhail Baryshnik…	OL2989268W
Let The Circle be Unbroken	Mildred D. Taylor	Let the Circle Be Unbroken is a story of a small Mississippi town in the 1930s, and the troubles that plague its black community. Picking up where its precursor, Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, leaves …	OL40864W