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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
973 HANNAH-JONES 2021
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973 HANNAH-JONES 2021
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"The animating idea of The 1619 Project is that our national narrative is more accurately told if we begin not on July 4, 1776, but in late August of 1619, when a ship arrived in Jamestown bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival inaugurated a barbaric and unprecedented system of chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
E 973.0496 CORTEZ 2020
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E 973.0496 CORTEZ 2020
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"B is for Beautiful, Brave, and Bright! And for a Book that takes a Bold journey through the alphabet of Black history and culture. Letter by letter, The ABCs of Black History celebrates a story that spans continents and centuries, triumph and heartbreak, creativity and joy. It's a story of big ideas--P is for Power, S is for Science and Soul. Of significant moments--G is for Great Migration. Of iconic figures--H is for Zora Neale Hurston, X is for...
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A lyrical, heart-lifting love letter to Black and Brown children everywhere reminds them how much they matter, that they have always mattered and they always will.
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"Ifemelu and Obinze are young and in love when they depart military-ruled Nigeria for the West. Beautiful, self-assured Ifemelu heads for America, where despite her academic success, she is forced to grapple with what it means to be black for the first time. Quiet, thoughtful Obinze had hoped to join her, but with post-9/11 America closed to him, he instead plunges into a dangerous, undocumented life in London. Fifteen years later, they reunite in...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Biography
EB TUBMAN H.
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EB TUBMAN H.
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A lush and lyrical biography of Harriet Tubman, written in verse. An evocative poem and opulent watercolors come together to honor a woman of humble origins whose courage and compassion make her larger than life.
6) Beloved
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After Paul D. finds his old slave friend Sethe in Ohio and moves in with her and her daughter Denver, a strange girl comes along by the name of "Beloved." Sethe and Denver take her in and then strange things begin to happen. Set in rural Ohio several years after the Civil War, this profoundly affecting chronicle of slavery and its aftermath is Toni Morrison's greatest novel, a dazzling achievement, and the most spellbinding reading experience of the...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
305.8 COATES 2015
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305.8 COATES 2015
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"For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him -- most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of? In Tremble for My Country, Coates takes readers along on his journey through America's history of race and its contemporary resonances through a series of awakenings -- moments...
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The author grew up in the woods of Mississippi amid poverty, hunger, fear, and hatred. He lied, stole, and raged at those around him; at six he was a "drunkard", hanging about in taverns. Surly, brutal, cold, suspicious, and self-pitying, he was surrounded on one side by whites who were either indifferent to him, pitying, or cruel, and on the other side by blacks who resented anyone trying to rise above the common law. This is the author's powerful...
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Take an exciting journey through Black history with dozens of inspiring biographies for kids. From the queens and pharaohs of ancient Egypt to modern-day scientists, athletes, and journalists, discover the lives of black leaders and role models throughout history. Black Heroes: a Black History Book for Kids is packed with 51 brief and engaging biographies of inspiring figures from Africa, the United States, and around the world. Learn about how these...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Biography
JB WOODSON J.
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JB WOODSON J.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Juvenile Biography
JB WOODSON J.
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JB WOODSON J.
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"Jacqueline Woodson, one of today's finest writers, tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and...
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Based on interviews with young women who were kidnapped by Boko Haram, this poignant novel by Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani tells the timely story of one girl who was taken from her home in Nigeria and her harrowing fight for survival. Includes an afterword by award-winning journalist Viviana Mazza.
A new pair of shoes, a university degree, a husband—these are the things that a girl dreams of in a Nigerian village. And with
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Contains a letter to Baldwin's nephew on the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. Also describes his childhood, views on Black Muslims, and his visions.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
973 KENDI 2021
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973 KENDI 2021
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"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Fiction
J WILLIAMS A.
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J WILLIAMS A.
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Thirteen-year-old Genesis tries again and again to lighten her black skin, thinking it is the root of her family's troubles, before discovering reasons to love herself as is.
15) Hair love
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Easy
E CHE M.
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E CHE M.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Easy
E CHE M.
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E CHE M.
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A little girl's daddy steps in to help her arrange her curly, coiling, wild hair into styles that allow her to be her natural, beautiful self.
16) The hate u give
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
STAFF PICKS YA THOMAS A.
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STAFF PICKS YA THOMAS A.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA THOMAS A.
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YA THOMAS A.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Nonfiction
R YA THOMAS A.
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R YA THOMAS A.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Young Adult Collection
YA PLAYAWAY THOMAS A.
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YA PLAYAWAY THOMAS A.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Audio Visual Collection
YA PLAYAWAY THOMAS A.
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YA PLAYAWAY THOMAS A.
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After witnessing her friend's death at the hands of a police officer, Starr Carter's life is complicated when the police and a local drug lord try to intimidate her in an effort to learn what happened the night Kahlil died.
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A fictionalized account of how in 1849 a Virginia slave, Henry "Box" Brown, escapes to freedom by shipping himself in a wooden crate from Richmond to Philadelphia.
18) Hidden figures
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
DVD MOVIE HIDDEN
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DVD MOVIE HIDDEN
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As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Nonfiction
510.92 SHETTERLY 2016
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510.92 SHETTERLY 2016
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Storage. See librarian for assistance.
LP BOOK CLUB KIT
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LP BOOK CLUB KIT
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
BOOK CLUB DISPLAY BOOK LP 510.92 SHETTER
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BOOK CLUB DISPLAY BOOK LP 510.92 SHETTER
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Large Print Collection
LP 510.92 SHETTERLY 2016 (PPBK)
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LP 510.92 SHETTERLY 2016 (PPBK)
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"Before John Glenn orbited the earth or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as "human computers" used pencils, slide rules and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space. Among these problem-solvers were a group of exceptionally talented African American women, some of the brightest minds of their generation. Originally relegated to teaching math in...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
STAFF PICKS GYASI Y.
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STAFF PICKS GYASI Y.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
GYASI Y.
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GYASI Y.
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"Two half sisters, Effia and Esi, unknown to each other, are born into two different tribal villages in 18th century Ghana. Effia will be married off to an English colonial, and will live in comfort in the sprawling, palatial rooms of Cape Coast Castle, raising half-caste children who will be sent abroad to be educated in England before returning to the Gold Coast to serve as administrators of the Empire. Her sister, Esi, will be imprisoned beneath...