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Firefly CloakSeven years after being abandoned with her little brother at a Tennessee campground, fifteen-year-old Tessa Lee learns that her mother has been living two hours away. |
FIC REY |
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To Kill a MockingbirdScout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the 1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the rape of a white girl. |
CD 813 LEE |
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Wrapped in RainbowsPresents the life of Zora Neale Hurston, from her youth in America's first incorporated all-black town through her literary career. |
B Hurston |
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A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & the Thanksgiving VisitorCollects three autobiographical fiction stories by Truman Capote, two of them telling of holidays spent with distant relatives in Alabama, and one recalling a Christmas spent in New Orleans with his e |
SC CAP |
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter |
FIC Mcculler s |
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Slavery Time When I Was ChillunTwelve oral histories of former slaves selected from the more than 2000 interviewed as part of the Slave Narratives of the Library of Congress for the Works Progess Administration in 1936. |
920 Sla |
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Your Blues Ain't Like MineSmall-town life in the rural South from the 1950s through the 1980s, emphasizing segregation and the social upheaval beginning in the 1950s. |
FIC Cam |
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Extra InningsAfter a tragic airplane crash that claims the lives of most of his family, sixteen-year-old Tate goes to live with his wealthy great-grandfather and his adopted black great-aunt Vidalia and he finds u |
FIC Pec |
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Black Voices From Reconstruction, 1865-1877Examines, using original source documents, photographs and drawings, the experiences and points of view of former slaves during the period of Reconstruction following the Civil War. |
973 Smi |
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Black Like MeThe author, a white man, recounts his experiences when he darkened his skin and traveled through the South as an African-American man. |
975 GRI |
