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Lucent Library of Black History Series

55 primary works • 55 total works
African American Literature: Sharing Powerful Stories
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Since the 18th century, African Americans have bee…

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    African American Inventors
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    This survey of African-American inventors includes…

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    Blacks in Film
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2008 · 3 editions
    Examines Blacks in film in context, so that reader…

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    The Black Press
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    Describes the history of African American publishi…

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    Jazz
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    The March from Selma to Montgomery
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    The African American Religious Experience
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    The Civil War and Emancipation
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    Reconstruction
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    Describes the need to build up the South after the…

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    The Black Arts Movement
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    3.50     · 4 Ratings · published 2008 · 1 edition
    Discusses the Black arts movement in context, so t…

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    Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
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    4.60     · 5 Ratings · published 2007 · 1 edition
    Covers the events surrounding the Montgomery Bus B…

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    African-American Literature
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    Africanamerican Folklore
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2008 · 1 edition
    Introduces the oral tradition of African American …

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    Black Nationalism
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    An introduction to a set of ideas, beliefs, and ac…

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    Blacks in Political Office
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    Each volume in the Lucent Library of Black History…

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    The Struggle for Equality: Landmark Court Cases
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    Examines Supreme Court decisions that had a direct…

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    Booker T. Washington and Education
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2008 · 2 editions
    A biography of the African American educator, born…

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    The Atlantic Slave Trade
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2007 · 1 edition
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    Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball
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    3.75     · 4 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 1 edition
    Profiles the first African American to play major …

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    A Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Plantation South
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    4.17     · 6 Ratings · published 2005 · 2 editions
    Placing American slavery in historical context, "A…

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    Marcus Garvey and the Back to Africa Movement
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 2006 · 3 editions
    African-American history is significant and integr…

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    The Tuskegee Experiments: Forty Years of Medical Racism
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    3.90     · 10 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 3 editions
    The Tuskegee Study is one of the most infamous med…

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    Ray Charles and the Birth of Soul
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 2 editions
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    A Dream Deferred: The Jim Crow Era
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    4.50     · 6 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2005 · 2 editions
    For African Americans, the Jim Crow era was a peri…

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    The Fight Renewed: The Civil Rights Movement
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2005 · 1 edition
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    Separate But Equal: The Desegregation of America's Schools
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    African Americans in Political Office: From the Civil War to the White House
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    Barack Obama made history when he became president…

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    An Appeal for Justice: The Trials of the Scottsboro Nine
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2011 · 2 editions
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    Women Civil Rights Leaders
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2012 · 3 editions
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    Slave Rebellions
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2006 · 2 editions
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    The Freedom Rides: The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
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    By the middle of the 1900s, African Americans were…

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    Reparations for Slavery: The Fight for Compensation
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 1 Reviews · 2 editions
    The enslavement of Africans in America is one of t…

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    African-Americans in Sports
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2012 · 2 editions
    "The Lucent Library of Black History places import…

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    Hidden No More: African American Women in Stem Careers
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    3.00     · 1 Ratings · 2 editions
    In recent years, the stories of black women in sci…

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    Freedom by Force: The History of Slave Rebellions
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    When people are routinely and systematically oppre…

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    Landmarks in African American History
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2012 · 3 editions
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    African Americans in Film: Issues of Race in Hollywood
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    The whitewashing of roles in films and the lack of…

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    The Freedom Rides
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    African American Entrepreneurs: Stories of Success
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    Starting a business is inherently risky, but it ha…

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    African American Inventors: Overcoming Challenges to Change America
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 2 editions
    Details the lives and struggles of African America…

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    The Story of African American Music
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    Traces the history of African American music, from…

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    The Harlem Renaissance
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    4.50     · 2 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2005 · 2 editions
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    From Ragtime to Hip-Hop
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · published 2006 · 2 editions
    Examines the diversity of Black American music.

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    Fighting for Freedom: Blacks in the American Military
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    A History of Free Blacks in America
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    5.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2005 · 3 editions
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    Buffalo Soldiers, Cowboys, and Homesteaders: Blacks on the American Frontier
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    Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
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    4.00     · 1 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 2 editions
    Born into slavery in Maryland, in 1849 Harriet Tub…

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    Lynching and Murder in the Deep South
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    3.88     · 8 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 2006 · 1 edition
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    The Quest for Freedom: The Abolitionist Movement
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    Reparations for Slavery
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    James Forman and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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    2.00     · 1 Ratings · published 2013 · 1 edition
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    The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Slavery Comes to the New World
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    Examines the history of the transatlantic slave tr…

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    Marching for Equality: The Journey from Selma to Montgomery
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    4.00     · 2 Ratings · 2 editions
    Examines the history of African American civil rig…

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    The History of the Blues
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    3.50     · 2 Ratings · published 2011 · 5 editions
    This popular Lucent Books series has been updated …

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    Malcolm X and Black Pride
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    4.29     · 7 Ratings · published 2009 · 1 edition
    A biography of Malcolm X, focusing on the incident…

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