De Voll, Cal
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Leo. Feist, Inc. 1919
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: The popular spiritual, Standing in the need of prayer, has been reworked to chronicle the milestones, struggles, tragedies, and triumphs of African American people and their history. The text and illustrations of this inspirational book are informative reminders of yesterday, hopeful images for today, and aspirational dreams of tomorrow.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE WEAArlen, Harold
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: A-M Music Corp. 1946
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMMills, Kerry
Format: notated music
Publisher / Publication Date: Jack Mills 1925
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1 available in Sheet Music, Call number: SHMJazzy Ash
Contents: Li'l Liza Jane -- Hambone (featuring Uncle Devin) -- She'll be coming around the mountain -- Head and shoulders, baby -- When the saints go marching in -- Sister Kate -- Little Sally Walker -- Eh la bas -- Everybody loves my baby -- Ballin' the jack (featuring Sarah Reich) -- Teddy bear, teddy bear -- Miss Mary Mack -- All the pretty little horses -- Down by the riverside.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JUV JAZMeister, Cari.
Summary: Peg Leg Joe travels from plantation to plantation singing the Drinking Gourd song that will guide slaves to freedom in the North.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Picture Window Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE MEIContents: Disc one, December 23, 1938 concert. Swingin' the blues / Count Basie, Eddie Durham, (Count Basie and his Orchestra) (3:34) -- One o'clock jump / Count Basie, (Count Basie & his Orchestra) (1:11) -- Introduction / John Hammond (0:38) -- Blues with Lips / Count Basie, (Oran "Hot Lips" Page, with Count Basie Orchestra) (3:11) -- I never knew / Ted Fio Rito, Gus Kahn, (Kansas City Five) (3:11) --...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Vanguard 1999
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD JAZZ FROThomas, Angie.
Summary: Maverick feels strongly about family ties, making choices he feels necessary to help support his mom while his King father serves time, and leave him literally holding his son in a doctor's waiting room after he gets paternity test results back and his babymomma ghosts. Now the child he's raising is impacting the lives of his family and his girlfriend, and the gang life he led to support them...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC THOFaxio, Tomesha
Summary: "A visual celebration of natural Black hair that highlights the powerful connection between mothers and daughters during their wash day rituals." --
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter / Publishers 2024
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 646.724 FAXFischer, 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 FISSmilios, Maria
Summary: "During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York's largest municipal hospital, began quitting. Desperate to avert a public health crisis, city officials summoned Black southern nurses, luring them with promises of good pay, a career, and an escape from the strictures of Jim Crow. But after arriving, they found themselves on...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2023