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421) Rosa's bus
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Describes the Montgomery bus boycott, which began when civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man, lasted 382 days, and led to the landmark Supreme Court decision ending segregation on Montgomery city buses.
422) Queen
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This fictionalized account of Haley's family follows the life of the daughter of a black slave and a white plantation owner in the late nineteenth century South.
Series
Underground volume 2
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Underground tells the story of American heroes and their harrowing journey from slavery to freedom, with the legendary Harriot Tubman blazing the trail.
Series
Publisher
Gale
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents literary criticism on the works of nineteenth-century writers of all genres, nations, and cultures. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, broadsheets, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Criticism includes early views from the author's lifetime as well as later views, including extensive collections of contemporary analysis.
Author
Publisher
Abrams ComicArts Megascope
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Queenie follows the life of Stephanie Saint-Clair-the infamous criminal who made herself a legend in Harlem in the 1930s. Born on a plantation in the French colony of Martinique, Saint-Clair left the island in 1912 and found success in New York, rising up through poverty and battling extreme racism to become the ruthless queen of Harlem's mafia and a fierce defender of the Black community. A racketeer and a bootlegger, Saint-Clair dedicated her wealth...
426) Wild faith
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A Civil War veteran returns home to Michigan and hopes to find peace, but he must fulfill a promise to a dying Negro soldier and bring his wife and daughter to live with him. The townsfolk aren't ready for this modern family and a plot to remove them is hatched. Facing bigotry and greatly outnumbered, they struggle to find faith as they world around them changes.
427) Abbott
Author
Publisher
Boom! Studios, a division of Boom Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"While investigating police brutality and corruption in 1970s Detroit, journalist Elena Abbott uncovers supernatural forces being controlled by a secret society of the city's elite. In the uncertain social and political climate of 1972 Detroit, hard-nosed, chain-smoking tabloid reporter Elena Abbott investigates a series of grisly crimes that the police have ignored. Crimes she knows to be the work of dark occult forces. Forces that took her husband...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Training day: For a rookie cop staying on the right side of the line that separates cop from criminal will be the most challenging thing he has ever done, because his senior partner is an undercover narc, meaner than any of L.A's mean streets.
The pelican brief: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
The Book of...
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"In the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance is in full swing, and only the Sangerye Family, once known as the greatest monster hunters of all time, can save New York -- and the world -- from the supernatural forces threatening to destroy humanity. But those days are fading and the once-great family that specialized in curing the souls of those infected by racism and hate has been torn apart by tragedies and conflicting moral codes. A terrible tragedy has...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Edge of the city: If you need a job Charlie Malik can find a spot for you in the dockside railyards. All he needs in return is that you show up on time, work hard, and kick back part of your pay. Two New York City longshoremen, Axel Nordmann, an Army deserter, and Tommy Tyler, an easy-going freight car loader, join forces against a corrupt New York waterfront union official. The two share a bond that cuts across society's black/white divide. A patch...