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Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
x, 181 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century a small group of women overcame personal and professional hardships to gain national prominence as educational reformers and social activists. This book takes a biographical look at Lucy Craft Laney, Mary McLeod Bethune, Nannie Helen Burroughs, Charlotte Hawkins Brown. The four women knew each other through the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs. The other four women founded schools...
2) Ava's man
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
viii, 258 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, [Rick Bragg] explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies, including his native Alabama, Cajun country, and the Gulf Coast. Everything is explored, from regional obsessions from college football and fishing, to mayonnaise and spoon bread, to the simple beauty of a fish on the hook. Collected from over a decade of...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 pages
Language
English
Description
The Newbery Honor-winning author of Genesis Begins Again offers a picture book rendering of Zora Neale Hurston's childhood to illuminate the rich natural-world and cultural experiences that shaped her education and career as a storyteller.
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
c1981
Physical Desc
lviii, 886 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
An authorized account of the Civil War, drawn from the diaries of a Southern aristocrat, records the disintegration and final destruction of the Confederacy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
441 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored,...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xiv, 386 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The first narrative history of the Civil War as told by the very people it freed. Historian of nineteenth-century and African-American history Andrew Ward weaves together hundreds of interviews, diaries, letters, and memoirs. Here is the Civil War as seen from slave quarters, kitchens, roadsides, swamps, and fields. Body servants, army cooks and launderers, runaways, teamsters, and gravediggers bring the war to richly detailed life. From slaves'...
Author
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Author Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological work challenges assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had been defined by the field in the 19th century.
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