Filter By Subjects
African American women African American women Biography Juvenile literature African Americans Biography African Americans Biography Juvenile literature Eating disorders Patients United States Biography Mother and child United States Slaves United States Biography Women Biography Women mathematicians Women mathematicians United States Biography Juvenile literatureFilter By Subjects
African American women African American women Biography Juvenile literature African Americans Biography African Americans Biography Juvenile literature Eating disorders Patients United States Biography Mother and child United States Slaves United States Biography Women Biography Women mathematicians Women mathematicians United States Biography Juvenile literatureSlade, Suzanne.
Summary: Biography of NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 JohnsonShetterly, Margot Lee
Summary: Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them despite their groundbreaking successes. Includes biographies on Dorothy Jackson Vaughan (1910-2008), Mary Winston Jackson (1921-2005), Katherine Colman Goble Johnson (1918- ), Dr. Christine Mann Darden (1942- ).
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 920 SheHarrison, Vashti
Summary: Features female figures of black history, including pilot Bessie Coleman, politician Shirley Chisholm, mathematician Katherine Johnson, poet Maya Angelou, and filmmaker Julie Dash.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company, Hachette Book Group 2018
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: BOARDBarretta, Gene
Summary: When George Washington Carver was just a young child, he had a secret: a garden of his own. Here, he rolled dirt between his fingers to check if plants needed more rain or sun. He protected roots through harsh winters, so plants could be reborn in the spring. He trimmed flowers, spread soil, studied life cycles. And it was in this very place that George’s love of nature sprouted into something...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 CarverGerald, Casey
Summary: "Casey Gerald comes to our fractured times as a uniquely visionary witness whose life has spanned seemingly unbridgeable divides. His story begins at the end of the world: Dallas, New Year's Eve 1999, when he gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to see which of them will be carried off. His beautiful, fragile mother disappears frequently and mysteriously;...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2018
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Gerald 2018Carbone, Elisa Lynn.
Summary: A runaway slave makes a daring escape to freedom with the help of his faithful hunting dog, Zeus. Based on the true story of James Smith's journey from Virginia to Ohio in the mid-1800s.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CarboWeatherford, Carole Boston
Summary: A true story of determination and groundbreaking achievement follows eighth grade African American spelling champion MacNolia Cox, who left Akron, Ohio, in 1936 to compete in the prestigious National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C., only to be met with prejudice and discrimination.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2023
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 CoxMakos, Adam.
Summary: "For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's 'forgotten war' in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 951.904 MakosSchmidt, Gary D
Summary: Shows how the hardships of slavery, particularly the loss of her family, caused Isabella Baumfree to walk towards freedom, to re-invent herself as Sojourner Truth, and to continue walking to abolish slavery and for other reforms.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2018
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE SchmidtPayne, Les
Summary: "An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author's interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative. Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X-all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family,...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2020
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 XDavis, Kenneth C.
Summary: "An examination of American slavery through the true stories of five enslaved people who were considered the property of some of our best-known presidents"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.0092 DavisKulling, Monica.
Summary: Surveys the life of Harriet Tubman, including her childhood in slavery and her later work in helping other slaves escape north to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2000
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 TubWilliams, Schele
Summary: "Your story begins in Africa. Your African ancestors defied the odds and survived 400 years of slavery in America and passed down an extraordinary legacy to you. Beginning in Africa before 1619, Your Legacy presents an unprecedentedly accessible, empowering, and proud introduction to African American history for children. While your ancestors' freedom was taken from them, their spirit was not;...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2021
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 973.71 WilliamsHobbs, Jeff
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.904 HobbsLewis, Damien
Summary: "In Agent Josephine, bestselling author Damien Lewis uncovers this little-known history of the famous singer's life. During the war years, as a member of the French Nurse paratroopers--a cover for her spying work--Baker participated in numerous clandestine activities and emerged as a formidable spy. In turn, she was a hero of the three countries in whose name she served--the US, France, and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BakerMorain, Dan
Summary: "There's very little that's conventional about Kamala Harris, and yet her personal story also represents the best of America. She grew up the eldest daughter of single mother, a cancer researcher who emigrated from India at the age of nineteen in search of a better education. She and her husband, an accomplished economist from Jamaica, split up when Kamala was only five. The Kamala Harris the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2021
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 HarrisNorthup, Solomon
Summary: Kidnapped into slavery in 1841, Solomon Northup spent 12 years in captivity. This autobiographical memoir represents an exceptionally detailed and accurate description of slave life and plantation society.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 37Ink/Atria 2013
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Movies, Call number: DVD DVD TwelvHubbard, Rita L
Summary: "A picture book biography sharing the inspiring and incredible true story of the nation's oldest student, Mary Walker, who learned to read at the age of 116"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Schwartz & Wade Books 2020
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 WalkerNorthup, Solomon
Summary: In this true story narrated by Academy Award winner Louis Gossett, Jr, the listener is transported to 1840s New York, Louisiana, and Washington, DC, to experience the kidnapping and twelve-year bondage of Solomon Northup, a free man of color. Published in 1853, this account was a bombshell in the national debate over slavery leading up to the Civil War and helped tilt public opinion in favor...
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2013
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK 306 NorthRoome, Hugh
Contents: Meet Martin Luther King Jr. -- Working for change -- Leading the charge -- Giving his all -- A poem about Martin Luther King Jr. -- You can make a difference -- Glossary.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Juvenile Non-fiction, Call number: J 921 KingSamuels, Robert
Summary: "A landmark biography by two prizewinning Washington Post reporters that reveals how systemic racism shaped George Floyd's life and legacy-from his family's roots in the tobacco fields of North Carolina, to ongoing inequality in housing, education, health care, criminal justice, and policing-telling the singular story of how one man's tragic experience brought about a global movement for...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2022
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FloydLaymon, Kiese
Summary: In this powerful and provocative memoir, genre-bending essayist and novelist Kiese Laymon explores what the weight of a lifetime of secrets, lies, and deception does to a black body, a black family, and a nation teetering on the brink of moral collapse.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Audiobooks, Call number: CDBK 921 Laymon 2018Laymon, Kiese
Summary: "Laymon writes eloquently and honestly about the physical manifestations of violence, grief, trauma, and abuse on his own body. He writes of his own eating disorder and gambling addiction as well as similar issues that run throughout his family. Through self-exploration, storytelling, and honest conversation with family and friends, Heavy seeks to bring what has been hidden into the light and...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2018
Copies Available at Suttons Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 Laymon 2018Du Bois, W .E.B.
Contents: The suppression of the African slave-trade -- The souls of Black folk -- Dusk of dawn -- Essays and articles.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986