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In this fast-paced, concise biography, Harvard Sitkoff presents a stunningly relevant and radical Martin Luther King, Jr. whose greatest accomplishments may have been yet to come.
King's murder in April 1968 did far more than cut tragically short the life of one of America's most remarkable civil rights leaders. In commemorating King's achievements at the end of his life and ignoring his defeats, too many Americans quickly relegated the civil rights...
27) Autobiography of a people: three centuries of African American history told by those who lived it
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2000.
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English
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Michelle Obama played a large and influential role in her husband's campaign, and is certain to do the same thing during his presidency. Michelle Obama: First Lady of Hope examines, for the first time, her astonishing career, from her undergraduate years at Princeton, where she majored in African Studies, to her continuing education at Harvard Law School, where she obtained a Juris Doctor degree.
29) Bigmama's
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[1991]
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English
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Visiting Bigmama's house in the country, young Donald Crews finds his relatives full of news and the old place and its surroundings just the same as the year before.
32) Barack Obama
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[2008]
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A short introduction to the 44th president of the United States.
40) Rosa Parks
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2002.
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English
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A brief biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a bus helped establish the civil rights movement.
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