Black History Month: Tennesseans

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42) How it came to be: the Boyd family's contribution to African American religious publishing from the 19th to the 21st century

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Lovett, Bobby L

43) Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching

Author

Giddings, Paula J

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eBook, Kindle

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Pulitzer Prize Board citation to Ida B. Wells, as an early pioneer of investigative journalism and civil rights icon

From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining "a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history," comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells—crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight for women's suffrage and against segregation and lynchings

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44) Ida, a sword among lions: Ida B. Wells and the campaign against lynching

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Giddings, Paula

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Traces the life and legacy of the nineteenth-century activist and pioneer, documenting her birth into slavery, her career as a journalist and a pioneer for civil rights and suffrage, and her determination to counter lynching.

45) Ida B. Wells

Author

Spiller, Sara

46) Ida B. Wells-Barnett: a voice against violence

Author

McKissack, Pat

Series

Great African Americans

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A biography of the black woman journalist who campaigned for the civil rights of women and other minorities and was a founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909.

47) Ida B. Wells-Barnett: "strike a blow against a glaring evil"

Author

Schraff, Anne E

Series

African-American biography library

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"Discusses Ida B. Wells-Barnett's life, her work as a teacher, writer, civil rights activist, and her strong stand against lynching in the late 19th and early 20th centuries"--Provided by publisher.

48) Ida B. Wells: let the truth be told

Author

Myers, Walter Dean

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Presents the life of Ida Barnett-Wells, an activist, educator, jouralist, suffragette, and a strong voice against lynching. Deplored the unequal treatment of blacks in the United States.

49) Ida B. Wells: mother of the civil rights movement

Author

Fradin, Dennis B

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Biography of Ida B. Wells, famous for helping to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and crusading against lynching.

50) In search of the promised land: a slave family in the Old South

Author

Franklin, John Hope

Series

New narratives in American history

51) The Isaac Hayes Movement

Author

Isaac Hayes

52) John Henry

Author

Lester, Julius

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Book, eAudiobook

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Retells the legend of the African American railroad builder who raced against a steam drill to cut through a mountain.

53) The Kelly Miller Smith papers

Author

Riggs, Marcia

54) ladies sing the blues

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55) Let it shine: stories of Black women freedom fighters

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis

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Tells the stories of ten African-American women freedom fighters.

56) light of truth writings of an anti lynching crusad

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57) The lives of the constitution: ten exceptional minds that shaped America's supreme law

Author

Tartakovsky, Joseph

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"[This book] tells the ... story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individuals--some renowned, like Alexander Hamilton and Woodrow Wilson, and some forgotten, like James Wilson and Ida B. Wells-Barnett. [The author] brings to life their struggles over our supreme law from its origins in revolutionary America to the era of Obama and Trump. Sweeping from settings as diverse as Gold Rush California to the halls of Congress, and...

58) Lost Delta found: rediscovering the Fisk University-Library of Congress Coahoma County study, 1941-1942

Author

Work, John W

59) Lost sounds: Blacks and the birth of the recording industry, 1891-1922

Series

Genres volume 5th v

60) Mary Lena Lewis Tate : Vision!: a biography of the Founder and History of The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth, Inc

Author

Lewis, Meharry H

Series

Centenary publication