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973 KEN	Kent, Deborah. African-Americans in the thirteen colonies. New York : Children's Press, c1996. Presents a brief history of African-Americans and of slavery in seventeenth and eighteenth century America.
F GAI PB	Gaines, Ernest J., 1933-. The autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. Toronto ; New York : Bantam, 1986, c1971. A 110-year-old black woman reminisces about her life, which has stretched from the days of slavery to the black militancy and civil rights movements of the 1960s.
973.7 HAS	Haskins, James, 1941-. Black, blue, & gray : African Americans in the Civil War. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c1998. An historical account of the role of African-American soldiers in the Civil War.
323.3 Wat	Allen, Zita. Black women leaders of the civil rights movement. New York : Franklin Watts, c1996. Tells the stories of some of the African-American women who played major roles in the Civil Rights Movement, as founders, lawyers, leaders, and behind-the-scenes workers.
921 WAS	Thoennes Keller, Kristin. Booker T. Washington : innovative educator. Minneapolis, MN : Compass Point Books, c2007. Speaking in Atlanta -- Life as a slave -- First years of freedom -- Going to school -- Hampton Institute -- Early professional years -- Arriving in Tuskegee -- Building Tuskegee, brick by brick -- Famous speech, famous speaker -- Spokesperson for his people. A biography of Booker T. Washington, the African-American educator who founded the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute.
973.3 COX PB	Cox, Clinton. Come all you brave soldiers : Blacks in the Revolutionary War. New York : Scholastic, [2003], c2002. Tells the story of the thousands of African-American men who served as soldiers fighting for independence from England during the American Revolutionary War.
323.1196 MCW	McWhorter, Diane. A dream of freedom : the Civil Rights movement from 1954 to 1968. New York : Scholastic Nonfiction, c2004. Examines the rise of the Civil Rights movement in America, the men and women whose lives made an impact in the pursuit of social and political equality, and landmark Supreme Court cases that changed the fabric of American society in the mid-to-late twentieth century.
921 DOU	Haugen, Brenda. Frederick Douglass : slave, writer, abolitionist. Minneapolis : Compass Point, c2005. Living with cruelty -- Growing up a slave -- Life at the great house farm -- An awakening in Baltimore -- Living with a slave breaker -- Freedom -- Frederick gets a new name -- Fighting for the Union cause -- Life after the war. Contains a biography of Frederick Douglass, the former slave turned abolitionist and author of an antislavery newspaper, and includes information on Douglass, from his childhood, to his struggles as a slave, to his leading the first all-black volunteer army in the Civil War.
920 HAC	Hacker, Carlotta. Great African Americans in jazz. New York : Crabtree Pub. Co., c1997. Profiles of thirteen African-American jazz musicians, including Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, and Billie Holiday.
700.9 HAR	The Harlem renaissance. Logan, IA : Perfection Learning, c2001. What was life like during the Harlem renaissance? -- What did Harlem renaissance writers say about being black? -- What contributions were made to American art and culture? -- Thinking on your own.
810.9 HIL	Hill, Laban Carrick. Harlem stomp! : a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance. 1st ed. New York : Little, Brown, c2003. Offers a cultural history of the Harlem Renaissance, discussing how it sparked a period of intellectual, artistic, literary, and political blossoming for many African-Americans.
920 VER	Vernell, Marjorie, 1948-. Leaders of Black civil rights. San Diego : Lucent Books, c2000. Discusses seven leaders of the civil rights movement, including Thurgood Marshall, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X.
921 KIN PB	Rappaport, Doreen. Martin's big words : the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1st Jump at the Sun pbk. ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2007, c2001. Looks at the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, explaining his work to bring about a peaceful end to segregation.
811 QUI PB	Quiet storm : voices of young black poets. 1st Hyperion Paperback ed. New York : Jump at the Sun/Hyperion Paperbacks for Children, 2002, c1999. A collection of sixty-one poems celebrating the African diaspora through the eyes of youths of African descent from the United States and around the world.
929 Hal	Haley, Alex. Roots. 1st ed. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1976. A black American traces his family's origins back to the African who was brought to America as a slave in 1767.
921 PAR PB	Chanko, Pamela, 1968-. Rosa Parks : bus ride to freedom. New York : Scholastic, c2007. Illustrations and simple text chronicle the life of civil rights activist Rosa Parks, whose refusal in 1955 to give up her seat on the bus to a white man, led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
920 SLA	Slave narratives : the journey to freedom. New York : Franklin Watts, c2001. Austin Steward -- Louis Hughes -- Bethany Veney -- James L. Smith. Contains excerpts from four slave narratives that provide insight into what life was like for African-Americans before, during, and after the Civil War.
921 GOL	Caper, William. Whoopi Goldberg : comedian and movie star. Springfield, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c1999. Examines the life and career of the versatile actress and comedian who overcame a drug addiction and became the first black female Academy Award winner since 1939.