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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Description
"Booker T. Washington (1856-1915), who overcame adversity to become a prominent orator and educator, believed that education was the key to racial equality. Beginning with his early life, this classic work conveys the triumphs and tragedies he encountered during his pursuit of freedom and learning. From a childhood shaped by slavery to the experiences that led to his founding of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a center of learning that focused...
2) Maasai
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
3) Fulani
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the history, traditions, culture, and religion of the Fulani, who held political, religious, and military power over parts of western Africa for several centuries and still live in many countries there.
4) Herero
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the history, culture, religion, traditions, and contemporary life of the Herero people living mainly in Namibia and Botswana.
5) Mbuti
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. ; col. ill., maps : 25 cm.
Language
English
6) Yoruba
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Language
English
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Description
The Story of an African Farm (1883) is a novel by South African political activist and writer Olive Schreiner. Her first published novel, The Story of an African Farm was a bestseller upon its release despite being criticized for its portrayal of controversial social, religious, and political themes. Part Bildungsroman, part philosophical fiction, the novel is recognized as a groundbreaking work for its exploration of feminism, atheism, and the influence...
Author
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Traces the roots and history of the martial art which was developed by Brazilian slaves and combines dance, play, ritual, and self-defense.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African", an autobiography published in 1798. Equiano (c. 1745-1797) was an African writer and abolitionist, who was taken into slavery as a child and transported to the British colony of Virginia. This personal account depicts the narrative of Equiano's life during his years as a slave: from being purchased as...
Author
Language
English
Description
The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as secretary of the NAACP, was perhaps the nation's most visible and most powerful African-American leader. He won passage of a federal anti-lynching law, hosted one of the premier salons of the Harlem Renaissance, created the legal strategy that led to Brown...
Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Rev. and expanded
Physical Desc
160 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States and the first African American to hold the office"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence because he offered a compromise with the white South: he was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement. Thus, one historian...
Author
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (240 pages)
Language
English
Description
"From the time of his famous Atlanta address in 1895 until his death in 1915, Booker T. Washington was the preeminent African-American educator and race leader. But to historians and biographers of the last hundred years, Washington has often been described as an enigma, a man who rose to prominence because he offered a compromise with the white South: he was willing to trade civil rights for economic and educational advancement. Thus one historian...
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Language
English
Description
"A harrowing memoir about one of the darkest periods in American history. Born a free man in New York, Solomon Northup was abducted in Washington, D.C., in 1841 and spent the next twelve years of his life in captivity as a slave on a Louisiana cotton plantation. After his rescue, he published this exceptionally vivid and detailed account of slave life--perhaps the best written of all the slave narratives. It became an immediate bestseller and today...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the twentieth century, African Americans not only helped make popular music the soundtrack of the American experience, they advanced American music as one of the preeminent shapers of the world's popular culture. Vast numbers of black American musicians deserve credit for this remarkable turn of events, but a few stand out as true giants. David Stricklin's superb new biography explores the life of one of them, Louis Armstrong.The life story of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Introduction to the life and accomplishments of famed African-American author and activist, Alice Walker. The most highly recognized series on African Americans celebrates Black History Month all year long! Journey to Freedom: The African American Library provides fascinating information on the heroic stories of African Americans who have played leading roles in shaping world history. Packed with vintage photographs that bring both the subjects' frustrations...
Author
Language
English
Description
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading.
Army Life in a Black Regiment is a riveting and empathetic account of the lessons learned from an encounter between a New England intellectual and nearly a thousand newly freed slaves. In the fall of 1862, Thomas Wentworth Higginson was asked to take command of the 1st Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers, and he immediately understood the significance of the experiment...
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