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Author: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Lab& 8482
Published: 2018-03
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1541514912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this work of historical fiction, Nelson tells the story of a man with a passion for knowledge and of a bookstore whose influence has become legendary.
Author: Mairuth Sarsfield
Publisher: Linda Leith Publishing
Published: 2021-11
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9781773900919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1997, No Crystal Stair is an absorbing story of Montreal in the 1940s. Raising her three daughters alone, Marion discovers she can only find gainful employment if she passes as white. Set in Little Burgundy against the backdrop of an exciting cosmopolitan jazz scene--home of Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, and Rockhead's Paradise--and the tense years of World War II, No Crystal Stair is both a tender story and an indictment of Canada's "soft" racism. In 2005, No Crystal Stair was nominated for that year's Canada Reads and was defended by Olympic fencer Sherraine MacKay.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 104
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKForty-five poems chosen from the work of the black poet, Langston Hughes, by Harlem fourth graders.
Author: Susan Sheehan
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 1994-09-06
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0679754504
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn October 7, 1984, Crystal Taylor gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Daquan. Crystal was only fourteen. She was living with a boyfriend whom she was too young to marry, and her mother was addicted to heroin and cocaine. So under the law, Crystal and Daquan became wards of New York State’s foster-care system—a sprawling, often slipshod web of boarding facilities, halfway houses, and paid surrogates that cares for almost 60,000 children. Life for Me Ain’t Been No Crystal Stair is the story of what happened to Crystal and Daquan, as well as to Crystal’s mother, who herself had grown up in various foster homes. It is a story of three generations of poverty, addiction, and abuse—and also a story of astonishing human resilience. And Susan Sheehan tells it with the same flawless observation, humor, and compassion that she brought to her classic Is There No Place on Earth for Me?
Author: Lynell George
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1992-11-17
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains essays, reports, vignettes, oral histories, and autobiographies examining the daily lives of African Americans in Los Angeles.
Author: Gloria Jean Wade Gayles
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGloria Wade-Gayles analyzes novels by Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and others. Praise for the first edition: "Highly recommended".--"Library Journal". "Finely reasoned, persuasive and passionate. . . . A definitive study. Thought-provoking and just".--"Booklist".
Author: Eva Rutland
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781551665191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis saga of how segregation and the Civil Rights movement shaped the lives of African Americans is told through the eyes of a woman who is born into the black privileged class. She leaves her sheltered life to marry a member of the first black unit in the Army Air Corps.
Author: Vaunda Micheaux Nelson
Publisher: Carolrhoda Books ®
Published: 2015-11-01
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1467790451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCoretta Scott King Illustrator Honor, ALA Notable Children's Book, CCBC Best Children's Book of the Year, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Kirkus Best Children's Books, NCTE Notable In the 1930s, Lewis's dad, Lewis Michaux Sr., had an itch he needed to scratch—a book itch. How to scratch it? He started a bookstore in Harlem and named it the National Memorial African Bookstore. And as far as Lewis Michaux Jr. could tell, his father's bookstore was one of a kind. People from all over came to visit the store, even famous people—Muhammad Ali, Malcolm X, and Langston Hughes, to name a few. In his father's bookstore people bought and read books, and they also learned from each other. People swapped and traded ideas and talked about how things could change. They came together here all because of his father's book itch. Read the story of how Lewis Michaux Sr. and his bookstore fostered new ideas and helped people stand up for what they believed in.
Author: Diana L. Hayes
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781626981959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this collection of essays, prayers, and meditations, Diana Hayes lays the foundation of womanist spirituality in the lived faith and struggles of African American women.This spirituality, as she observes, "flows from their lived encounters with God, nurtured and sustained with sweat, tears, and blood as they worked the fields, worked in the homes of white families, worked in factories and wherever else they could to support their families and build their communities.... It is a spirituality which arises from a deep and abiding faith in a God of love, a wonder-working God who walked and talked with them, giving them the strength to persevere."Beginning with the story of her own spiritual journey -- her upbringing in the AME Zion Church where she encountered "a God who loved me into life," her training as a lawyer, conversion to Catholicism, and determination to become a theologian -- Hayes offers a moving, inspiring, and challenging window on the lived faith of African American women today.
Author: Langston Hughes
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2022-01-31
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 0486850560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImmediately celebrated as a tour de force upon its release, Langston Hughes's first published collection of poems still offers a powerful reflection of the Black experience. From "The Weary Blues" to "Dream Variation," Hughes writes clearly and colorfully, and his words remain prophetic.
