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OVERDRIVE - Black History Month - Grades 9-12 OVERDRIVE - Black History Month - Grades 9-12 Cover Title Author Synopsis Lexile The Warmth of Wilkerson, Chronicles the decades-long migration of African- 1160 Other Suns: the Isabel Americans who fled the South for northern and epic story of western cities between 1915 and 1970, discussing America’s great how they altered the cities of America and the migration African-American community. The Twelve Tribes Mathis, In 1923, African American Hattie Shepherd flees 813 of Hattie Ayana Georgia, settles in Philadelphia, marries a man who will bring her nothing but disappointment, loses her first-born twins, and raises her next nine children to face a world that will not love them. The Autobiography X, Malcolm Malcolm X, the Black Muslim leader, firebrand, and 1120 of Malcolm X anti-integrationist, tells his life story to veteran writer and journalist Alex Haley. Not in my Pietila, Eugenics, racial thinking, and white supremacist N/A Neighborhood: how Antero attitudes influenced even the federal government's bigotry shaped a actions toward housing in the 20th century, dooming great Ameican city American cities to ghettoization. The Federal Housing Administration continued discriminatory housing policies even into the 1960s, long after civil rights legislation. This all-American tale is told through the prism of Baltimore, from its early suburbanization in the 1880s to the consequences of white flight after World War II, and into the first decade of the twenty- first century. The events are real, and so are the heroes and villains. Mr. Pietila's narrative centers on the human side of residential real estate practices, whose discriminatory tools were the same everywhere: restrictive covenants, redlining, blockbusting, predatory lending. Each of the following titles are available on the GRPS Digital Overdrive Library at http://www.grps.lib.overdrive.com or by downloading the Overdrive App Login is school username and password OVERDRIVE - Black History Month - Grades 9-12 The Black Calhouns Buckley, In The Black Calhouns, Gail Lumet Buckley--daughter N/A - from Civil War to Gail Lumet of actress Lena Horne--delves deep into her family Civil Rights with history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary One African African-American family from Civil War to Civil American family Rights. Kindred Butler, Dana, a modern black woman, is celebrating her 580 Octavia E. twenty-sixth birthday with her new husband when she is snatched abruptly from her home in California and transported to the antebellum South. Rufus, the white son of a plantation owner, is drowning, and Dana has been summoned to save him. Dana is drawn back repeatedly through time to the slave quarters, and each time the stays grow longer, more arduous, and more dangerous until it is uncertain whether or not Dana's life will end, long before it has a chance to begin. The Misadventures Rae, Issa In the bestselling tradition of Sloane Crosley's I Was N/A of Awkward Black Told There'd Be Cake and Mindy Kaling's Is Everyone Girl Hanging Out Without Me?, a collection of humorous essays on what it's like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits, and black as cool. Roots: the saga of Haley, Alex A black American traces his family's origins back to 1330 an American Family the African who was brought to America as a slave in 1767. The Color Purple Walker, Tells the story of two African-American sisters: 670HL Alice Nettie, a missionary in Africa, and Celie, a child-wife living in the south, in the medium of their letters to each other and in Celie's case, the desperate letters she begins, "Dear God." Each of the following titles are available on the GRPS Digital Overdrive Library at http://www.grps.lib.overdrive.com or by downloading the Overdrive App Login is school username and password OVERDRIVE - Black History Month - Grades 9-12 I Know Why the Angelou, Thanks to her sweet, but brutally honest and poetic 1330 Caged Bird Sings Maya prose, Maya Angelou’sfirst book was an instant classic when it came out and will still amaze readers for generations to come. The first book in Angelou’s autobiographical series is harsh and humorous, painful, resoundingly resilient and beautifully hopeful Dreams from My Obama, Barack Obama tells the story of his life as the son of N/A Father Barack a black African father and a white American mother, searching for workable meaning to his life as an African-American. The Known World Jones, Henry Townsend, a African farmer and former slave, N/A Edward P. is befriended by the most powerful man in antebellum Virginia's Manchester County and becomes proprietor of his own plantation, as well as of his own slaves. I am not Sidney Everett Not Sidney Poitier, an orphan at age eleven, is left N/A Poitier: a novel Percival with a confusing name and a physical resemblance to the famed actor, but he receives a fortune from his inherited shares in the Turner Broadcasting Corporation. Go Tell it on the Baldwin, Describes a day in the life of several members of a 1030 Mountain james Harlem fundamentalist church. The saga of three generations of people is related through flashbacks. A Lesson Before Gaines, Tells the story of a young African-American man 750 Dying Ernest J. sentenced to death for a murder he did not commit, and a teacher who tries to impart to him his learning and pride before the execution. Each of the following titles are available on the GRPS Digital Overdrive Library at http://www.grps.lib.overdrive.com or by downloading the Overdrive App Login is school username and password OVERDRIVE - Black History Month - Grades 9-12 The Bluest Eye Morrison, An eleven-year-old African-American girl in Ohio, in 920 Toni the early 1940s, prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be beautiful. Turning 15 on the Lowery, Lynda Blackmon Lowery recounts her experiences as 780 Road to Freedom: Lynda the youngest marcher on the 1965 voting rights my story of the Blackmon march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. 1965 Selma voting rights march Spies of Mississippi: Bowers, Chronicles how the Mississippi State Sovereignty 1290 the true story of Rick Commission attempted to halt racial integration in the spy network the 1950s and 1960s through an extensive propaganda that tried to effort to label civil rights leaders and their followers destroy the civil as communists. rights movement Ten Miles Past Dowell, Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat 960 Normal Frances farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot O”Roark have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers. Up From Slavery Washington Booker T. Washington, the son of a slave woman and 1010 , Booker T. a white man, recounts his rise from slavery to become the most influential black leader of his time in the U.S., and founder of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Song of Solomon Morrison, Follows the life of Macon Dead, Jr., the son of the 870 Toni richest black family in a midwestern town, as he leaves home on a quest for personal freedom. Each of the following titles are available on the GRPS Digital Overdrive Library at http://www.grps.lib.overdrive.com or by downloading the Overdrive App Login is school username and password OVERDRIVE - Black History Month - Grades 9-12 Boy 21 Quick, Finley, an unnaturally quiet boy who is the only 830 Matthew white player on his high school's varsity basketball team, lives in a dismal Pennsylvania town that is ruled by the Irish mob, and when his coach asks him to mentor a troubled African American student who has transferred there from an elite private school in California, he finds that they have a lot in common in spite of their apparent differences. How I Discovered Nelson, The author reflects on her childhood in the 1950s and N/A Poetry Marilyn her development as an artist and young woman through fifty poems that consider such influences as the Civil Rights Movement, the "Red Scare" era, and the feminist movement. The Short and Hobbs, jeff Looks at the life of Robert Peace, who was born 1220 Tragic Life of outside Newark in a ghetto known as "Illtown," Robert Peace: a earned a full scholarship to Yale University, and brilliant young man graduated. He returned home and taught at a who left Newark Catholic high school, but was killed at the age of for the Ivy League thirty in a drug-related shooting. The Blacker the Thurman, Emma Lou Brown, a victim of prejudice inside and N/A Berry Wallace outside the African-American community because of her very dark skin, moves from her home in Idaho to New York's Harlem in the 1920s, hoping to find acceptance. Sag Harbor: a novel Whitehead Benji Cooper, the son of a doctor and a lawyer, is N/A , Colson one of very few African-American students at an elite Manhattan prep school in 1985, which is why he so looks forward to summer when he and his brother Reggie, left alone for most of the week while their parents work, can relax within the comfortable confines of the community of professional African- Americans that spend the warm months at Sag Harbor. Each of the following titles are available on the GRPS Digital Overdrive Library at http://www.grps.lib.overdrive.com or by downloading the Overdrive App Login is school username and password OVERDRIVE - Black History Month - Grades 9-12 Invisible Man Ellison, In the course of his wanderings from a Southern 950 Ralph college to New York's Harlem, an African-American man becomes involved in a series of adventures.
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