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Portrait of America : a cultural history of the Federal Writers' Project / by Hirsch, Jerrold,1948-(CARDINAL)140590;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-281) and index.I: Romantic nationalism, cultural pluralism, and the federal writers' project -- 1. Inherited questions -- 2. Visions and constituencies: introducing and writing the American guide series -- 3. A new deal view of American history and art: The federal writer's project guidebook essays -- 4. Picturesque pluralism: the guidebook tours -- II: Modernity, cultural pluralism, and the federal writers' project -- 3. Long live participation!: ethnicity, race, and the federal writer's project -- 6. Before Columbia: the federal writers' project and American oral history research -- 7. The people must be heard: W.T. Couch and the southern life history program -- 8. Toward a marriage of true minds: the federal writers' project and the writing of southern folk history -- III: Denouement -- 9. Conflicting definitions of America: the dies committee and the writers' project -- 10. Reform, culture, and patriotism: the writers' project becomes the writers' program, 1939-1943 -- Have you discovered America?
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project; National characteristics, American.;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Long past slavery : representing race in the Federal Writers' Project / by Stewart, Catherine A.,author.(CARDINAL)348494;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-334) and index.The passing away of the old-time negro: folk culture, Civil War memory, and black authority in the 1930s -- Committing mayhem on the body grammatic: the Federal Writers' Project, the American guide, and representations of black identity -- Out of the mouths of slaves: the Ex-Slave Project and the "Negro question" -- Adventures of a ballad hunter: John Lomax and the pursuit of black folk culture -- The everybody who's nobody: black employees in the Federal Writers' Project -- Conjure queen: Zora Neale Hurston and black folk culture -- Follow me through Florida: Florida's Negro writers' unit, the Ex-Slave Project, and The Florida Negro -- Rewriting the master('s) narrative: signifying in the ex-slave narratives -- Epilogue : Freedom dreams: the last generation.From 1936 to 1939, the New Deal's Federal Writers' Project collected life stories from more than 2,300 former African American slaves. In this examination of the project and its legacy, Catherine A. Stewart shows it was the product of competing visions of the past, as ex-slaves' memories were used to craft arguments for and against full inclusion of African Americans in society.
Subjects: Federal Writers' Project.; African Americans; African Americans; Collective memory; Cultural pluralism;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Freedom summer : the 1964 struggle for civil rights in Mississippi / by Rubin, Susan Goldman,author.(CARDINAL)505341;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 114-115) and index.980LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Mississippi Freedom Project; Civil rights movements; Civil rights workers; African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights movements; Civil rights workers; African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 18 / Total copies: 18
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Freedom Summer, Mississippi 1964 / by FI Channels (Firm),publisher.; Film Ideas (Firm),publisher.;
We take a look at how the civil rights movement of the 1960s transformed the United States. Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, the NAACP, from Selma to Detroit, fought the Ku Klux Klan and other racists for basic human rights and equality. We find out how the divisive chasm of race was addressed, and the impact this had on American society.
Subjects: Educational films.; Nonfiction films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Documentary films.; Mississippi Freedom Project.; Civil rights movements; African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Confessions to Mr. Roosevelt / by Holt, Marilyn J.,author.(CARDINAL)809395;
An aspiring writer becomes involved in the lives of Kansas townsfolk whose stories she was hired to record as part of a New Deal program during the Depression.
Subjects: Detective and mystery fiction.; Historical fiction.; Federal Writers' Project; Depressions; Rural families; Women authors, American;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 4
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Who built America? : working people and the nation's economy, politics, culture, and society / by Levine, Bruce C.,1949-(CARDINAL)192417; American Social History Project.(CARDINAL)198929;
Includes bibliographical references (volume 1, pages 563-582).Vol. 1. From conquest and colonization through Reconstruction and the great uprising of 1877. -- v. 2. From the gilded age to the present.
Subjects: Working class;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Freedom Summer / by McAdam, Doug.(CARDINAL)525654;
Bibliography: pages 311-322.
Subjects: Mississippi Freedom Project.; African Americans; African Americans; Civil rights workers;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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Freedom Summer, 1964 / by Rubin, Susan Goldman.(CARDINAL)505341;
980LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Mississippi Freedom Project; Civil rights movements; Civil rights workers; African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Freedom Summer, 1964 / by Mooney, Carla,1970-author.(CARDINAL)349099;
Includes bibliographical references (page 47) and index.950LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Mississippi Freedom Project; Civil rights movements; Civil rights workers; African Americans; African Americans;
Available copies: 5 / Total copies: 5
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Born on the water / by Hannah-Jones, Nikole,author.(CARDINAL)815658; Smith, Nikkolas,1985-illustrator.(CARDINAL)792068; Watson, Renée,author.(CARDINAL)350886;
"The 1619 Project's lyrical picture book in verse chronicles the consequences of slavery and the history of Black resistance in the United States"--Ages 7-10.Grades 4-6.860LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Creative nonfiction.; Picture books.; 1619 Project; African Americans; Genealogy; Slavery;
Available copies: 112 / Total copies: 122
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