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Glass sword [large print] / by Aveyard, Victoria,author.(CARDINAL)618392;
As the struggle between the growing rebel army and the blood-segregated world escalates, Mare, who has the red blood of the common folk but also the silver ability to control lightning, must fight against the darkrness that has grown in her soul.HL770LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Fantasy ficton.; Large print books.; Young adult fiction.; Ability; Blood; Princesses; Government, Resistance to; Social classes; Courts and courtiers;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 1
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The healer's daughter [large print] / by Hinger, Charlotte,1940-author.(CARDINAL)745574;
"Bethany Herbert, daughter of a legendary healer, leaves the South for the new black community of Nicodemus, Kansas. Despite the hardships, the community comes to love the prairie. Bethany's mother, Queen Bess, comes to Nicodemus, as does the handsome lawyer Jed Talbot, who galvanizes the settlers. Bethany resists the call of her heart because Queen Bess warns her the best healers are chaste and single. When the Herbert women's medical procedures are undermined, Bethany nearly succumbs to Queen Bess's call for total segregation from the whites Bess hates. Sinister forces come into play through white politicians seeking the black vote, and sabotage by a woman within Nicodemus who yearns for the old color hierarchy. The people of Nicodemus fight back and ultimately triumph"--
Subjects: Fiction.; Large print books.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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News for all the people : the epic story of race and the American media / by González, Juan,1947-(CARDINAL)672890; Torres, Joseph.(CARDINAL)599672;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-430) and index.The age of newspapers. "Barbarous Indians" and "rebellious Negroes" ; In the mail : the post office, the press and the mass political party ; Inciting to riot : the age of Jackson -- Rebel voices. A new democratic press ; Priests, mobs, and know-nothings : the early Spanish-language press ; The Indian war of words ; To plead our own cause : the early Black press ; "The Chinese must go!" -- The age of news networks. Wiring the news ; The Progressive Era and the colored press -- The age of broadcasting. Words with wings ; Trouble in the streets ; Other voices : Amos 'n' Andy, the "Sunshine Lady" and Los Madrugadores ; Uniting the home front ; The color line and the public interest : the post-War period ; Fierce rebellion, furious reaction : 1963-2003 -- The age of the Internet. Controlling the means of transmission : old media's fall and new media's rise."Here is a new, sweeping narrative history of American news media that puts race at the center of the story. From the earliest colonial newspapers to the Internet age, America's racial divisions have played a central role in the creation of the country's media system, just as the media has contributed to--and every so often, combated--racial oppression. News for All the People reveals how racial segregation distorted the information Americans received from the mainstream media. It unearths numerous examples of how publishers and broadcasters actually fomented racial violence and discrimination through their coverage. And it chronicles the influence federal media policies exerted in such conflicts. It depicts the struggle of Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American journalists who fought to create a vibrant yet little-known alternative, democratic press, and then, beginning in the 1970s, forced open the doors of the major media companies."--from publisher's description.
Subjects: Mass media and race relations; Mass media; Press and politics; Race relations and the press; Racism in mass media.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 4
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Colored travelers : mobility and the fight for citizenship before the Civil War / by Pryor, Elizabeth Stordeur,author.(CARDINAL)338694;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-205) and index.Nigger and home : an etymology -- Becoming mobile in the age of segregation -- Activist respectability and the birth of the "Jim Crow Car" -- Documenting citizenship : colored travelers and the passport -- The Atlantic voyage and Black radicalism -- Abroad : sensing freedom."Americans have long regarded the freedom of travel a central tenet of citizenship. Yet, in the United States, freedom of movement has historically been a right reserved for whites. In this book, Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor shows that African Americans fought obstructions to their mobility over 100 years before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus. These were "colored travelers," activists who relied on steamships, stagecoaches, and railroads to expand their networks and to fight slavery and racism. This book tells the story of how the basic act of traveling emerged as a front line in the battle for African American equal rights before the Civil War"-- ǂc Provided by publisher.
Subjects: African Americans; African Americans; Freedom of movement; Travel restrictions;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Our secret society : Mollie Moon and the glamour, money, and power behind the civil rights movement / by Ford, Tanisha C.,author.(CARDINAL)788457;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-349)Introduction -- New Negroes in Moscow -- Berlin -- Power couple -- Civil leaders -- Becoming a fundraiser -- The Rockefeller affair -- Park Avenue elite -- Black wealth -- Cold War tensions -- Black freedom economics -- Rule with a satin glove -- Sidelined -- Nickels and dimes -- March on Washington -- Betrayed -- A reckoning -- Conclusion -- Sideways : an essay of method.Ford illuminates the powerhouse fund-raising effort that supported the Civil Rights Movement: luncheons, galas, card parties and traveling exhibitions attended by middle-class and working class Black families, the Negro press, and titans of industry. Mollie Moon lived abroad in the 1930s but came home to fight against Jim Crow segregation in the United States. With her husband Henry Lee Moon, Mollie became half of one of the most influential couples of the civil rights era. Ford provides a searing portrait of a remarkable period in America and a strategic economic blueprint today's activists can emulate--
Subjects: Biographies.; Moon, Mollie.; National Urban League; African American civil rights workers; Civil rights movements; Civil rights workers; Civil rights; Fund raisers (Persons); Fund raising;
Available copies: 10 / Total copies: 12
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Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society. [large print] by Hearth, Amy Hill,1958-(CARDINAL)207448;
"With humor and insight the novel chronicles the awkward North-South cultural divide as Jackie, this hapless but charming “Yankee,” looks for some excitement in her life by accepting an opportunity to host a local radio show where she creates a mysterious, late-night persona, “Miss Dreamsville,” and by launching a reading group—the Collier County Women’s Literary Society—thus sending the conservative and racially segregated town into uproar. The only townspeople who venture to join are regarded as outsiders at best—a young gay man, a divorced woman, a poet, and a young black woman who dreams of going to college."--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Large print books.; Book clubs (Discussion groups); Life change events; Literature; Women radio talk show hosts;
Available copies: 6 / Total copies: 6
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African American Army officers of World War I : a vanguard of equality in war and beyond / by Wilson, Adam P.,1983-(CARDINAL)410327;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Debating the use of African Americans as soldiers -- The fight for a segregated officer training camp -- Life at Fort Des Moines -- Across the Atlantic; fighting two wars -- Legal battles against segregation -- The Black press: is the pen mightier than the sword -- Mentoring the next generation -- The military desegregated -- Conclusion.
Subjects: United States. Army; World War, 1914-1918; African American soldiers; African Americans; Discrimination in the military; Civil rights movements; Racism; Racism.;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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A girl stands at the door [large print] : the generation of young women who desegregated America's schools / by Devlin, Rachel,author.(CARDINAL)356038;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 513-607).
Subjects: Large print books.; Segregation in education; Discrimination in education; School integration; Educational equalization; African American girls; Civil rights movements;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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Massive resistance : southern opposition to the second reconstruction / by Webb, Clive,1970-(CARDINAL)270998; Webb, Clive,1970-(CARDINAL)270998;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-230) and index.Why massive resistance? / Michael J. Klarman -- Brown and backlash / Tony Badger -- A political coup d'état? How the enemies of Earl Long overwhelmed racial moderation in Louisiana / Adam Fairclough -- "Massive resistance and minimum compliance" : the origins of the 1957 Little Rock school crisis and the failure of school desegregation in the South / John A. Kirk -- The fight for "Freedom of Association" : segregationist rights and resistance in Atlanta / Kevin M. Kruse -- White South, red nation : massive resistance and the Cold War / George Lewis -- Disunity and religious institutions in the white South / David L. Chappell -- The theology of massive resistance : sex, segregation, and the sacred after Brown / Jane Dailey -- White womanhood, white supremacy, and the rise of massive resistance / Elizabeth Gillespie McRae -- Massive resistance, violence, and Southern social relations : the Little Rock, Arkansas, school integration crisis, 1954-1960 / Karen S. Anderson.
Subjects: Conference papers and proceedings.; White people; Government, Resistance to; African Americans; School integration;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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The stadium : an American history of politics, protest, and play / by Guridy, Frank Andre,author.(CARDINAL)881806;
Includes bibliographical references (317-346) and index.Palaces of pleasure, arenas of protest -- America's Sugar Bowl -- Nation time at the Coliseum -- Settler Stadium -- The inner sanctums -- Out at the ballpark -- Corporate templates of exclusion -- War and democracy at the ballpark."Stadiums are monuments to recreation, sports, and pleasure. Yet from the earliest ballparks to the present, stadiums have also functioned as public squares. Politicians have used them to cultivate loyalty to the status quo, while activists and athletes have used them for anti-fascist rallies, Black Power demonstrations, feminist protests, and much more. In this book, historian Frank Guridy recounts the contested history of play, protest, and politics in American stadiums. From the beginning, stadiums were political, as elites turned games into celebrations of war, banned women from the press box, and enforced racial segregation. By the 1920s, they also became important sites of protest as activists increasingly occupied the stadium floor to challenge racism, sexism, homophobia, fascism, and more. Following the rise of the corporatized stadium in the 1990s, this complex history was largely forgotten. But today's athlete-activists, like Colin Kaepernick and Megan Rapinoe, belong to a powerful tradition in which the stadium is as much an arena of protest as a palace of pleasure. Moving between the field, the press box, and the locker room, this book recovers the hidden history of the stadium and its important role in the struggle for justice in America."--
Subjects: Informational works.; Stadiums;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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