![Far more terrible for women [downloadable ebook] : personal accounts of women in slavery](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76455@2x.jpg)
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![On the road to freedom [downloadable ebook] / a guided tour of the civil rights trail](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/76701@2x.jpg)
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Charles E. Cobb Jr
(60)
Summary: An award-winning black journalist takes a pilgrimage through the sites and landmarks of the civil rights movement as he journeys to key locales that served as a backdrop to important events of the...
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![The grass harp [downloadable ebook] / including tree of night and other stories](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/68966@2x.jpg)
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Truman Capote
(5,855)
Summary: The protagonists of these nine short stories learn to accept the harsh loneliness of life.
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Rick Bragg
(4,330)
Summary: "Keenly observed and written with his insightful and deadpan sense of humor, [Rick Bragg] explores enduring Southern truths about home, place, spirit, table, and the regions' varied geographies,...
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Call #: 818.54 BRA
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Teresa LaClair
(1)
Summary: The people who settled in the Southern colonies found a land as big as their dreams and identities. These prosperous and successful Americans helped mold America into the nation it is today.
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Call #: J 975 LAC
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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![Go set a watchman [large print]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/147885@2x.jpg)
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Harper Lee
Series:
To Kill A Mockingbird
(261,437)
Summary: Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch -- "Scout"--Returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and...
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Call #: LP F LEE
Location: Large Print Fiction
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Eleanor Henderson
(3,255)
Summary: "Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence." -- Provided by publisher
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Call #: F HENDERSON
Location: Adult Fiction
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![To kill a mockingbird [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/128191@2x.jpg)
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Summary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
DVD
Call #: DVD CLASSIC TO
Location: DVDs Classics
copies in: 1 of 1
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![The twelve-mile straight [eBook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/195343@2x.jpg)
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Eleanor Henderson
(3,230)
Summary: "Novel set in the south during the Great Depression that takes an entirely fresh view on big American themes-- race, heredity, inequality, shame-- set in a time of financial crisis and racialized violence." -- Provided by publisher
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![Hush harbor [downloadable ebook] / praying in secret](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/54659@2x.jpg)
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Freddi Williams Evans
Summary: While Simmy watches for danger from high in a tree, other slaves gather in a hidden spot in the woods to sing and pray together in their own way, risking their lives in pursuit of religious freedom....
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![Roots (1977) [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/32360@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is...
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DVD
Call #: DVD TV ROOTS
Location: DVDs TV Series
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![The fall of the house of Dixie [downloadable ebook] / the Civil War and the social revolution that transformed the South](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/77123@2x.jpg)
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Bruce C Levine
(1,697)
Summary: In this major new history of the Civil War, Bruce Levine tells the riveting story of how that conflict upended the economic, political, and social life of the old South, utterly destroying the Confederacy and the society it represented and defended.
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![The secret life of bees [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/39779@2x.jpg)
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Summary: Lily Owens is a young girl who lives on the peach farm that her abusive father owns. Rosaleen is a black woman hired by Lily's father to be a stand in mother for Lilly. Rosaleen insults some of the...
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Call #: DVD DRAMA SECRET
Location: DVDs Drama
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James Patterson
Series:
Alex Cross Series
Summary: Detective Alex Cross tells an ancestor's story, in this astonishing account of one man's bold pursuit of justice in the face of racism and violence.
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Call #: F PATTERSON
Location: Adult Fiction
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![Black like me [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/35261@2x.jpg)
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John Howard Griffin
(47,375)
Summary: Writer John Howard Griffin (1920-1980) decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on them by another...
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![Alex Cross's trial [downloadable audiobook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/46050@2x.jpg)
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James Patterson
(27,547)
Summary: Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
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![Fried green tomatoes [DVD]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/28588@2x.jpg)
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Summary: A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago,...
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DVD
Call #: DVD DRAMA FRIED
Location: DVDs Drama
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Summary: "The New York Times has been offering up dream weekends with practical itineraries in its popular weekly "36 Hours" column since 2002. The many expert contributors have brought careful research,...
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BOOK
Call #: 917.5 NEW
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![Black like me [downloadable ebook] / the definitive Griffin estate edition, corrected from original manuscripts](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/74494@2x.jpg)
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John Howard Griffin
(66,691)
Summary: Publisher's description: Studs Terkel tells us in his Foreword to the definitive Griffin Estate Edition of Black Like Me: "This is a contemporary book, you bet." Indeed, Black Like Me remains...
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Andrea Davis Pinkney
(2,351)
Summary: "This picture book is a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the momentous Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in, when four college students staged a peaceful protest that became a defining moment in...
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BOOK
Call #: J 323.1 PIN
Location: Junior Nonfiction
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![Alex Cross's trial [downloadable ebook]](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/52769@2x.jpg)
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James Patterson
(27,547)
Summary: Detective Alex Cross tells the story of an ancestor, Abraham Cross, and his experiences with lawyer Ben Corbett, recounting one man's pursuit of justice in the face of the resurgence of Ku Klux Klan racism and violence in 1906 Eudora, Mississippi.
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Tal McThenia
(598)
Summary: Chronicles one of the most celebrated--and most misunderstood--kidnapping cases in American history. In 1912, four-year-old Bobby Dunbar, the son of an upper-middle-class Louisiana family, went...
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Call #: 364.154 MCT
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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![Night of the black bear [downloadable ebook] / a mystery in Great Smoky Mountains National Park](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/69200@2x.jpg)
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Gloria Skurzynski
(104)
Summary: While their mother investigates a series of bear attacks in and near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, Jack and Ashley learn about country music and Cherokee people from two new friends, one of whom is keeping a secret.
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Julian E Zelizer
(510)
Summary: An examination of Carter's presidency and his emergence as an important voice for international diplomacy and negotiation.
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Call #: B CARTER
Location: Adult Biographies
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Celia Rivenbark
(3,762)
Summary: A collection of essays about life in the Southern United States.
BOOK
Call #: 817.6 RIV
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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Ty Seidule
(3,821)
Summary: In a forceful but humane narrative, former soldier and head of the West Point history department, Ty Seidule, challenges the myths and lies of the Confederate legacy -- and explores why some of this...
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Call #: 973.7 SEI
Location: Adult Nonfiction
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John Lewis
(3,414)
Summary: Lewis' role in the Nashville Movement -- a student-led effort to desegregate the city of Nashville through nonviolent sit-ins - made him a defining activist of his day and helped set the tone for the...
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Call #: B LEWIS
Location: Adult Biographies
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![1858 [eBook] : Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant and the war they failed to see](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/134897@2x.jpg)
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Bruce Chadwick
(284)
Summary: "1858 explores the events and personalities of the year that would send the America's North and South on a collision course culminating in the slaughter of 630,000 of the nation's young men, a...
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Colson Whitehead
(375,187)
Summary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they...
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Call #: F WHITEHEAD
Location: Adult Fiction
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![The underground railroad [large print] : a novel](https://www.johnstonlibrary.com/wp_pac/full/images/noimage.gif)
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Colson Whitehead
Summary: Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they...
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LARGE PRINT
Call #: LP F WHITEHEAD
Location: Large Print Fiction
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by
Samantha Allen
(3,025)
Summary: Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary who cited the Bible to denounce homosexuality. Now she's a senior Daily Beast reporter happily married to another woman. A...
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BOOK
Call #: 306.766 ALL
Location: Adult Nonfiction
copies in: 1 of 1
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by
Kristine Spanier
Summary: In this book, early fluent readers learn about the South, its location, history, demographics, geography, climate, and other defining features. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text...
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Call #: J 975 SPA
Location: New Junior Nonfiction
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![Driving with the devil [downloadable ebook] / southern moonshine, Detroit wheels, and the birth of NASCAR](https://images.johnstonlibrary.com/58330@2x.jpg)
