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DK super readers Freedom's promise Medical fiascoes series Sounds of the South v. 3Contents: I don't mind the weather (Jim Henry) -- Diamond Joe (Charlie Butler) -- Joe the grinder (Irwin Lowry) -- Another man done gone ; Boll weevil blues (Vera Hall) -- Two white horses ; Country rag (East Texas rag) : (guitar solo) ; Shorty George (Smith Casey) -- Blues (up an down buildin' the KC line) ("Little Brother") -- Country blues ; I be's troubled (McKinley Morganfield) -- Lost John ; Fox...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Select 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD BLUES AFRContents: Sorrow come pass me around (Ephram Carter and his Fife & Drum Band) -- Do remember me (Willard Artis "Blind Pete" Burrell) -- The ship is at the landing (Babe Stovall) -- You don't know what the Lord has done for me (Annie Lee and Oscar Crawford, with Annie Mae Jones) -- Talk about a child that do love Jesus (Reverend Rubin Lacy) -- Can't no grave hold my body down (Robert "Nighthawk" Johnson)...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Dust-To-Digital 2013
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2 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SORContents: Death, have mercy / adapted & arranged by Vera Hall (Vera Hall, vocal) -- I want Jesus to walk with me / adapted & arranged by James Shorty (James Shorty, vocal; Mississippi Fred McDowell, guitar) -- Jesus is real to me / adapted & arranged by Mary Lee (Mrs. Mary Lee & congregation, vocals) -- I love the Lord / traditional (Reverend R.C. Crenshaw & congregation, vocals) -- A sermon fragment /...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS SOUMwai, Melissa H.
Summary: "Learn all about the amazing African American culture of Harlem with this fun-filled nonfiction reader--carefully leveled to help children progress . . . 'Harlem Renaissance' will introduce kids to the exciting lives, music, art and ideas of the African American community of Harlem 100 years ago--and is a motivating introduction to using essential nonfiction reading skills, proving ideal for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: DK Publishing 2024
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Transitional Reader (Blue), Call number: JBR BLUE MWAWhite, Shane.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 WHIFischer, David Hackett
Summary: "A brilliant synthesis of African and African-American history that shows how slavery differed in different regions of the country, and how the Africans and their descendants influenced the culture, commerce, and laws of the early United States"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.0496 FISJarrow, Gail
Summary: "Imagine microscopic worms living in the soil. They enter your body through your bare feet, travel to your intestines, and stay there for years sucking your blood like vampires. You feel exhausted. You get sick easily. It sounds like a nightmare, but that's what happened in the American South during the 1800s and early 1900s. Doctors never guessed that hookworms were making patients ill, but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Calkins Creek, an imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 616.9 JARHarris, Duchess.
Summary: John Lewis is an influential African American politician who played a key role in the civil rights movement. He raised awareness of racial discrimination and violence in the 1960s. This book explores Lewis's activism and political career. Includes infographics and glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing 2020
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB LEWIS HARSummary: Filmmaker Byron Hurt looks at the past and future of soul food, covering its roots in Western Africa, its incarnation in the American South, and the role it plays in the health crisis in the African American community. Examines the socioeconomics of the modern American diet, and how the food industry profits from producing cheap calories while healthy options remain expensive and hard to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV SOUAvery, Jaha Nailah
Summary: The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn't affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Levine Querido 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: J 305.896 AVEMiller, Karl Hagstrom
Summary: Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music--a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice--was reduced to a series of distinct genres linked to...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Duke University Press 2010
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Summary: An audio original collection of primary source documents written by 19th century Black women along with author Erica Armstrong Dunbar's own context, insights, and story-telling talent.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 920.72 DUNJohnson, E. Patrick
Summary: "Giving voice to a population rarely acknowledged in southern history, Sweet Tea collects life stories from black gay men who were born, raised, and continue to live in the southern United States. E. Patrick Johnson challenges stereotypes of the South as 'backward' or 'repressive,' suggesting that these men draw upon the performance of 'southernness'--politeness, coded speech, and religiosity,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of North Carolina Press 2012