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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Youth - Early Reader
YE 394.263 WYE
1 available
YE 394.263 WYE
1 available
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"Learn more about Juneteenth, a holiday that celebrates the end of chattel slavery in the United States in this Step 3 History Reader"--
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"A Flag for Juneteenth depicts a close-knit community of enslaved African Americans on a plantation in Texas, the day before the announcement is to be made that all enslaved people are free. Young Huldah, who is preparing to celebrate her tenth birthday, can't possibly anticipate how much her life will change that Juneteenth morning. The story follows Huldah and her community as they process the news of their freedom and celebrate together by creating...
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Eight-year-old David and his family gather at Grandma's house in Galveston, Texas, for a cherished family tradition--Grandma's annual retelling of the story of Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
973.049 SMI 2021
3 available
973.049 SMI 2021
3 available
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2 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"'This book is Clint Smith's contemporary portrait of the United States of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks, those that are honest about the past and those that are not, that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves" --
Beginning in his hometown...
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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Youth - On Display
SONGS/ GIDDENS
1 available
SONGS/ GIDDENS
1 available
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"Grammy Award winner Rhiannon Giddens celebrates Black history and culture in her unflinching, uplifting, and gorgeously illustrated picture book debut. As an acclaimed musician, singer, songwriter, and cofounder of the traditional African American string band the Carolina Chocolate Drops, Rhiannon Giddens has long used her art to mine America's musical past and manifest its future, passionately recovering lost voices and reconstructing a nation's...
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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Youth - Board Books
Y BOARD BOOK
1 available
Y BOARD BOOK
1 available
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Illustrations and rhyming text present nine steps "Antiracist Baby" can take to improve equity, such as opening our eyes to all skin colors and celebrating all our differences.
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 KEN 2019
3 available
305.8 KEN 2019
3 available
Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 KEN 2019
1 available
305.8 KEN 2019
1 available
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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Main - Audio Book Shelves
CD 305.8 KEN
1 available
CD 305.8 KEN
1 available
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Combines ethics, history, law, and science with a personal narrative to describe how to move beyond the awareness of racism and contribute to making society just and equitable.
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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Youth - Youth Non-Fiction
Y 305.8 JEW
1 available
Y 305.8 JEW
1 available
Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Youth Area
Y 303.385 JEW
1 available
Y 303.385 JEW
1 available
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"Learn about identities, true histories, and anti-racism work ... This book is written so young people will feel empowered to stand up to the adults in their lives. This book will give them the language and ability to understand racism and a drive to undo it"-- Cover
This book is written for the young person who doesn't know how to speak up to the racist adults in their life. For the 14 year old who sees injustice at school and isn't able to understand...
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 REY 2020
1 available
305.8 REY 2020
1 available
Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Young Adult Area
YA 305.8 REY
1 available
YA 305.8 REY
1 available
Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 REY 2020
1 available
305.8 REY 2020
1 available
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Young Adult A/V Area
YA PLAYAWAY 305.8 REY 2020
1 available
YA PLAYAWAY 305.8 REY 2020
1 available
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"The construct of race has always been used to gain and keep power, to create dynamics that separate and silence. Racist ideas are woven into the fabric of this country, and the first step to building an antiracist America is acknowledging America's racist past and present. This book takes you on that journey, showing how racist ideas started and were spread, and how they can be discredited."--Dust jacket flap.
"A history of racist and antiracist...
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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Youth - Youth Non-Fiction
Y 305.8 CHE
2 available
Y 305.8 CHE
2 available
Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Youth Area
Y 305.8 CHE
1 available
Y 305.8 CHE
1 available
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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Youth - Audio Book Shelves
Y PLAYAWAY 305.8 REY
1 available
Y PLAYAWAY 305.8 REY
1 available
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"A chapter book adaptation of Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You: A Remix of the National Book Award-winning "Stamped from the Beginning."--
Kids will discover where racist ideas came from, identify how they impact America today, and meet those who have fought racism with antiracism. Along the way, they'll learn how to identify and stamp out racist thoughts in their own lives.
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
305.8 KEN 2016
2 available
305.8 KEN 2016
2 available
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"Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi...
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1 copy, 3 people are on the wait list.
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"A Little Devil in America is an urgent project that unravels all modes and methods of black performance, in this moment when black performers are coming to terms with their value, reception, and immense impact on America. With sharp insight, humor, and heart, Abdurraqib examines how black performance happens in specific moments in time and space--midcentury Paris, the moon, or a cramped living room in Columbus, Ohio. At the outset of this project,...
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F HARRIS, NATHAN
1 available
F HARRIS, NATHAN
1 available
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Main - Adult Kits
BOOK CLUB KIT #235 FFL
1 available
BOOK CLUB KIT #235 FFL
1 available
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"In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry, freed by the Emancipation Proclamation, seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, plan to save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother,...
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1 copy, 1 person is on the wait list.
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Tyson has been blessed to grace the stage and screen for six decades. She has been the church girl who once rarely spoke a word; the teenager who sought solace in the verses of the old hymn for which this book is named. A daughter and mother, a sister, and a friend, she is also an observer of human nature and the dreamer of audacious dreams. Here, in her ninth decade, Tyson is a woman who has something meaningful to say. -- adapted from jacket
15) Razorblade tears
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F COSBY, S.A.
1 available
F COSBY, S.A.
1 available
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1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
1 copy, 9 people are on the wait list.
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A Black father. A white father. Two murdered sons. A quest for vengeance. Ike Randolph has been out of jail for fifteen years, with not so much as a speeding ticket in all that time. But a Black man with cops at the door knows to be afraid. The last thing he expects to hear is that his son Isiah has been murdered, along with Isiah's white husband, Derek. Ike had never fully accepted his son but is devastated by his loss. Derek's father Buddy Lee was...
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Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Dry room
CD 305.512 WIL
1 available
CD 305.512 WIL
1 available
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2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
2 copies, 10 people are on the wait list.
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Large Print
LARGE PRINT 305.512 WIL 2020
1 available
LARGE PRINT 305.512 WIL 2020
1 available
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"As we go about our daily lives, caste is the wordless usher in a darkened theater, flashlight cast down in the aisles, guiding us to our assigned seats for a performance. The hierarchy of caste is not about feelings or morality. It is about power--which groups have it and which do not. In this book, Isabel Wilkerson gives us a portrait of an unseen phenomenon in America as she explores, through an immersive, deeply researched narrative and stories...
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Adult Non-Fiction
304.809 WIL 2010
2 available
304.809 WIL 2010
2 available
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Fletcher Free Library - 1st Floor-Main - Audio Book Shelves
CD 304.809 WIL 2011
1 available
CD 304.809 WIL 2011
1 available
Description
In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Adult Fiction
F JOHNSON, SADEQA
1 available
F JOHNSON, SADEQA
1 available
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1 copy, 8 people are on the wait list.
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This harrowing story follows an enslaved woman forced to barter love and freedom while living in the most infamous slave jail in Virginia. Born on a plantation in Charles City Virginia, Pheby Delores Brown has lived a privileged life. Shielded by her mother's position as the plantation's medicine woman, and cherished by the Master's sister, she is set apart from the others on the plantation, belonging to neither world. Freedom on her eighteenth birthday...
19) Homegoing
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Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F GYASI
1 available
F GYASI
1 available
Fletcher Free Library - 2nd Floor - Adult Fiction
F GYASI, YAA
1 available
F GYASI, YAA
1 available
Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Adult Fiction
F GYASI, YAA
1 available
F GYASI, YAA
1 available
Checked Out
3 copies, 4 people are on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
Checked Out
4 copies, 1 person is on the wait list.
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"Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the other. One will marry an Englishman and lead a life of comfort in the palatial rooms of the Cape Coast Castle. The other will be captured in a raid on her village, imprisoned in the very same castle, and sold into slavery. Homegoing follows the parallel paths of these sisters and their descendants through eight generations: from the Gold Coast to the...
20) Dear Martin
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Fletcher Free Library - 3rd Floor - Young Adult Area
YA STONE, NIC
1 available
YA STONE, NIC
1 available
Fletcher Free NNE Branch - Young Adult Area
YA STONE, NIC
1 available
YA STONE, NIC
1 available
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"Justyce McAllister is a good kid, an honor student, and always there to help a friend--but none of that matters to the police officer who just put him in handcuffs. Despite leaving his rough neighborhood behind, he can't escape the scorn of his former peers or the ridicule of his new classmates. Justyce looks to the teachings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for answers. But do they hold up anymore? He starts a journal to Dr. King to find out. Then...