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Summary: After being denied a seat on a New York City streetcar, Elizabeth Jennings begins the fight for equality by telling her story in churches, to newspapers, and finally in the courtroom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Boyds Mills & Kane 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JENCastrovilla, Selene
Summary: Recounts the story of an enslaved man seeking sanctuary during the Civil War whose heroism saved Fortress Monroe and helped convince President Lincoln that slavery must be abolished.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 975.5 CASSummary: A biography of Elizabeth Coleman, who battled segregation, poverty, and gender discrimination in order to become the first licensed African-American female pilot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 COLGolio, Gary
Summary: "The story of Blind Willie Johnson--the legendary Texas musician whose song "Dark Was the Night" was included on the Voyager I space probe's Golden Record"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Nancy Paulsen Books 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOHGolio, Gary
Summary: "This visually stunning portrait of Black photographer Roy DeCarava, a child of the Harlem Renaissance and an artistic collaborator of Langston Hughes, takes readers through 1940s Harlem where beauty is everywhere as he immortalizes and documents the lives of ordinary Black people. Simultaneous eBook. Illustrations."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024
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Summary: When Walt Whitman saw his brother's name on a list of wounded Union soldiers, he went to see him in the war hospital, and did not stop visiting and ministering to Civil War soldiers for the next three years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2024