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English
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"The Weary Blues" is the powerful and ground-breaking collection of poetry by American author Langston Hughes. An important contribution to the growing Harlem Renaissance art movement, "The Weary Blues" was Hughes' first poetry collection and was published in 1926 when the author was only 24, though some of the poems had appeared earlier in magazines. An immediate critical success, Hughes created a new form of poetry, called jazz or blues poetry,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Dr. King’s best-selling account of the civil rights movement in Birmingham during the spring and summer of 1963
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...
On April 16, 1963, as the violent events of the Birmingham campaign unfolded in the city’s streets, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., composed a letter from his prison cell in response to local religious leaders’ criticism of the campaign. The resulting piece of extraordinary protest writing, “Letter...
Publisher
Visible Ink Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xii, 548 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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"Latino Almanac covers the history of Latino Americans in politics, labor, law, religion, business, science, medicine, the military, media, sports, literature, music, theater, art, and film. Chapters address the important events and social and cultural changes that affected Latino Americans over the centuries. Each chapter offers a narrative history, along with separate biographical profiles of more than 650 key figures"--
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 15
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xxii, 266 pages ; 20 cm.
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English
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"Du Bois' 1903 collection of essays is a thoughtful, articulate exploration of the moral and intellectual issues surrounding the perception of blacks within American society."--Provided by publisher.
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2022.
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English
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"In her most famous spoken-word poem, author of the Pura Belpré-winning novel-in-verse The Poet X Elizabeth Acevedo embraces all the complexities of Black hair and Afro-Latinidad--the history, pain, pride, and powerful love of that inheritance. Paired with full-color illustrations by artist Andrea Pippins in a format that will appeal to fans of Mahogany L. Browne's Black Girl Magic or Jason Reynolds's For Everyone, this poem can now be read in a...
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Versify, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
99 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Profiling forty influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, this collective biography of people who have helped change the world in countless ways pays tribute to their courage and determination to make a difference.
15) Uberland
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English
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Pulling back the curtain on the labor issues surrounding Uber and the gig economy, UBER LAND tells the story of a scandal-ridden company that upended transportation, defied regulators, decimated the taxi industry, and ended up cannibalizing its own drivers. From the ashes of the Great Recession came the gig economy, which promised independence and flexibility for workers. Now, more than ten years later, the veneer of the gig economy has faded as the...
Publisher
The Scarecrow Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2006-
Physical Desc
volumes < 1-17 > ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This new series, Emigration from the United Kingdom to America, which covers the years between 1870 and 1897, will give both the historian and genealogist a database of English, Welsh, Scotch, and Irish immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The passenger lists reproduced in this volume are arranged in chronological order by date of arrival with records of passengers from Great Britain and Ireland...
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