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Black History Month - February 2008 |
In 1926 Dr. Carter G. Woodson launched Negro History Week as a means of bringing national attention to the many contributions of various African Americans throughout American history. Fifty years later, in 1976 Negro History Week became Black History Month. A month to empower, remember, and embrace the roles African Americans have played in history.
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Some Friend
by Marie Bradby |
| A coming-of-age story about an 11 year-old African American girl living in Maryland in the 1960s during the Civil Rights Movement. |
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Storm Warriors
by Elisa Carbone |
| Twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving station. |
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Bronx Masquerade
by Nikki Grimes |
| While studying the Harlem Renaissance, students at a Bronx high school read aloud poems they've written, revealing their innermost thoughts and fears to their formerly clueless classmates. |
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Day of Tears: A Novel in Dialogue
by Julius Lester |
| Emma has taken care of the Butler children since Sarah and Frances's mother, Fanny, left. Emma wants to raise the girls to have good hearts, as a rift over slavery has ripped the Butler household apart. |
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47
by Walter Mosley |
| A fourteen-year-old slave boy growing up under the watchful eye of a brutal master in 1832, meets the mysterious Tall John, who introduces him to a magical science and teaches him the meaning of freedom. |
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The Beast
by Walter Dean Myers |
| A visit to his Harlem neighborhood and the discovery that the girl he loves is using drugs give sixteen-year-old Anthony Witherspoon a new perspective both on his home and on his life at a Connecticut prep school. |
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My grandfather's son : a memoir
by Clarence Thomas |
| The Supreme Court justice recounts his life story, from his impoverished childhood in Jim Crow-era Georgia and his struggles to acquire an education, to his publicly contested confirmation to the nation's highest court. |
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Diablerie : a novel
by Walter Mosley |
| Ben Dibbuk has a good job, an accomplished wife, a bright college-age daughter, and a patient young mistress. Then a woman from his past turns up. |
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The wave
by Walter Mosley |
| In this science fiction story, the main character receives a phone call from his dead father who asks his son to meet him in the cemetery. |
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