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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.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 920.72 HARRISON 2017
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J 920.72 HARRISON 2017
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 920.72 HARRISON 2017
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J 920.72 HARRISON 2017
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Based on her popular Instagram posts, debut author/illustrator Vashti Harrison shares the stories of 40 bold African American women who shaped history.
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A picture book biography introduces the ideas and accomplishments of a gifted and influential speaker by using some of his own words to tell the story.
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When young Mae Jemison is asked by her teacher what she wants to be when she grows up, African American Mae tells her mostly white classmates that she wants to be an astronaut, a dream that her parents wholeheartedly support.
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 811.6 ALEXANDER 2019
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J 811.6 ALEXANDER 2019
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Reference Collection
R J811.6 ALEXANDER 2019
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R J811.6 ALEXANDER 2019
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Juvenile Nonfiction
E 811.6 ALEXANDER 2019
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E 811.6 ALEXANDER 2019
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"The Newbery Award-winning author of The Crossover pens an ode to black American triumph and tribulation, with art from a two-time Caldecott Honoree"--
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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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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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Campbell Co. Public Library - Audio Visual Collection
CD 364.973 ALEXANDER 2012
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CD 364.973 ALEXANDER 2012
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Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project and the new $100 million Art for Justice Fund; it has been the winner of numerous prizes, including the prestigious NAACP Image Award; and it has spent nearly 250 weeks on the New...
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Ruby Bridges tells her story as never before and shares the events of the momentous day in 1960 when Ruby became the first Black child to integrate the all-white William Franz Elementary as a six-year-old little girl-a personal and intimate look through a child's lens at a landmark moment in our Civil Rights history.
My work will be precious.
I will bridge the "gap" between Black & white...
...and hopefully all people!
I suppose some things in...
10) 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 - Audio Visual Collection
CD B ANGELOU M.
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CD B ANGELOU M.
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The author and poet recalls the anguish of her childhood in Arkansas and her adolescence in northern slums.
"Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings captures the longing of lonely children, the brute insult of bigotry, and the wonder of words that can make the world right. Maya Angelou's debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Sent by their mother...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Fiction
WHITEHEAD C.
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WHITEHEAD C.
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Campbell Co. - Wright Branch - Fiction
WHITEHEAD C.
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WHITEHEAD C.
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"Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city's placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse:...
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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 - Nonfiction
305.896 WILKERSON 2010
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305.896 WILKERSON 2010
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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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...
17) Invisible man
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In the course of his wanderings from a Southern Negro college to New York's Harlem, an American black man becomes involved in a series of adventures. Introduction explains circumstances under which the book was written. Ellison won the National Book Award for this searing record of a black man's journey through contemporary America. Unquestionably, Ellison's book is a work of extraordinary intensity -- powerfully imagined and written with a savage,...
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Campbell Co. Public Library - Juvenile Nonfiction
J 323.092 WEATHERFORD 2015
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J 323.092 WEATHERFORD 2015
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Presents a collage-illustrated treasury of poems and spirituals inspired by the life and work of civil rights advocate Fannie Lou Hamer.
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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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A novel about black Americans in Florida that centers on the life of Janie and her three marriages.