HIS 221 - African-American History: Find Books

• Hand in Hand by Andrea Pinkney; Brian Pinkney (Illustrator)

  Call Number: E 185.86 .P56 2012 SOUTH and NORTH

  ISBN: 9781423142577

  Publication Date: 2012-10-23

  HAND IN HAND presents the stories of ten men from different eras in American history, organized chronologically to provide a scope from slavery to the modern day. Profiled: Benjamin Banneker Frederick Douglass Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois A. Philip Randolph Thurgood Marshall Jackie Robinson Malcolm X Martin Luther King, Jr Barack H. Obama II
• The African American Experience by Kai Wright (Editor)

  Call Number: E 184.6 .A33 2009 RCCC NORTH

  ISBN: 9781579127732

  Publication Date: 2009-01-01

  "The African American Experience" is a one-of-a-kind, riveting collection of more than 300 letters, speeches, articles, petitions, poems, songs, and works of fiction tracing the course of black history in America from the first slaves brought over in the 16th century to the events of the present day.
• Devil in the Grove by Gilbert King

  Call Number: KF 224 .G76 K56 2013

  ISBN: 9780061792267

  Publication Date: 2013-02-19

  Devil in the Grove is the winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost him his life.
• W. E. B. Du Bois by Mark Stafford (Text by); John Davenport (Text by)

  Call Number: E 185.97 .D73 S68 2005

  ISBN: 0791081583

  Publication Date: 2004-08-01

  Perhaps no one expressed the aspirations of black America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries better or more eloquently than William Edward Burghardt Du Bois. His voice and his pen forced Americans to confront the issue of civil rights and address the racial hatred that tortured the nation.

• African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 by R. Douglas Hurt (Editor, Introduction by)

  ISBN: 9780826214713

  Publication Date: 2003-06-27

  African American Life in the Rural South, 1900-1950 provides important new information about African American culture, social life, and religion, as well as economics, federal policy, migration, and civil rights.
• Civil Rights Literature, Past and Present by Christopher A. Varlack (Editor)

  ISBN: 9781682172681

  Publication Date: 2017-01-01

  American civil rights literature has largely been associated with speeches, letters, and non-fiction works produced by African-American activists of the 1950s and '60s. This volume not only examines key works of the African-American civil rights debate past and present, it also explores issues of gender equality and sexual orientation integral to civil rights studies.

• Bloomsbury Collections  Collection of ebooks covering history and literary criticism. Includes a large collection of American slave narratives.

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• Credo Reference A premier virtual reference collection including encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, images, audio files, and videos in a wide expanse of subject areas.

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• eBook Central Scholarly titles supporting student and faculty research, and general nonfiction on topics such as school & studying, career development, arts & leisure, and practical life skills.

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• eBooks on EBSCOhost Over 26,000 fiction, reference, scholarly, and professional books online.

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• Gale eBooks

• HomeGrown eBooks A collection of more than 3,200 eBooks from a variety of North Carolina publishers. Includes popular and scholarly nonfiction, novels by well-known NC authors, and award-winning short fiction and poetry.

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• Infobase eBooks

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  eBooks covering Literature and the Humanities.

• IGI Global eBook Collection
• Mental Health & Wellbeing eBooks
• Omnigraphics Health Reference Sourcebooks

• Open Library A downloadable eBook collection with books contributed from libraries across the country. Create a username and password to borrow up to five books at a time.

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• Overdrive Downloadable popular fiction and non-fiction e-books and audio books for your reading and listening pleasure.

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• Oxford University Press Open Access eBooks

• Poetry for Students

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  Features discussion and analysis of poems of all time periods, nations, and cultures. Provides an overview of the poem and discussion of its principal themes, images, form and construction.
• R2 Digital Library The R2 Digital Library is a market-leading eBook platform for health science collections featuring a comprehensive collection of medical, nursing and allied health eBooks presented through a clean and intuitive interface.

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• Salem Press eBooks Collection of eBooks in Literature, Careers, History, Immigration, and Primary Sources.

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