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African American women
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UpstateThe story of a young couple in love and their struggle to maintain a relationship while the young man is incarcerated for a horrendous crime. |
FIC BUC |
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My JimEx-slave Sadie Watson reveals to her granddaughter her experiences while in bondage and the love she had for her husband, Jim, who escaped down the Mississippi with Huck Finn when he learned he was to |
FIC RAW |
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The Forbidden SchoolhouseChronicles the life and struggles of Prudence Crandall who, in the 1830s closed her all-white boarding school for girls in Canterbury, Connecticut, and began admitting African-American students; and d |
B CRANDALL |
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TenderheadedA collection of poems, essays, cartoons, photos, and excerpts from novels and plays in which African-Americans discuss the meaning hair has for their culture. |
810.8 TEN |
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Drinking Coffee ElsewherePresents eight short stories revolving around young African-Americans, from little girls in a Brownie troop to a young man who accompanies his father to the Million Man March. |
SC PAC |
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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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Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. KecklyExamines the role Elizabeth Keckly, freed slave and dressmaker, played in the life of Mary Todd Lincoln. |
920 Fle |
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The Member of the WeddingFrankie Addams, a motherless twelve-year-old raised by her father and the family's African-American cook, struggles with conflicting feelings about her brother's upcoming wedding. |
FIC MCC |
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The Wind Done GoneA fiercely intelligent, young African American woman comes of age during the Reconstruction years after the Civil War. |
FIC Ran |
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What Looks Like Crazy On an Ordinary Day--Ava Johnson returns to her hometown now filled with many problems, whose ordinariness once turned her away. |
FIC Cle |
