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African American Collection at Gordon Avenue

Black women in America

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Charlottesville, an African-American community
Agnes Cross-White

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Encyclopedia of African American women writers

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The life of Langston Hughes
Arnold Rampersad

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Women, culture & politics
Angela Y Davis

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Works
Richard Wright

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Harlem renaissance : art of black America

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My bondage and my freedom
Frederick Douglass

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Daddy was a number runner
Louise Meriwether

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Centers of the self : stories by black American women from the nineteenth century to the present

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Black Confederates and Afro-Yankees in Civil War Virginia
Ervin L Jordan

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The preacher King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America
Richard Lischer

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Iron City : a novel
Lloyd L Brown

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Mumbo jumbo
Ishmael Reed

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I've known rivers : lives of loss and liberation
Sara Lightfoot-Lawrence

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James Van DerZee : the picture-takin' man
James Haskins

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Keeping faith : philosophy and race in America
Cornel West

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One more river to cross : an African American photograph album
Walter Dean Myers

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Invisible man
Ralph Ellison

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An easy burden : the civil rights movement and the transformation of America
Andrew Young

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1001 things everyone should know about African-American history
Jeffrey C Stewart

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Tuskegee's heroes : featuring the aviation art of Roy LaGrone
Charlie Cooper

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Louis Farrakhan and the Nation of Islam
James Haskins

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Langston Hughes
Milton Meltzer

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Pillar of fire : America in the King years, 1963-65
Taylor Branch

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Honey, hush! : an anthology of African American women's humor

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Interiors : a black woman's healing in progress
Iyanla Vanzant

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King of the world : Muhammad Ali and the rise of an American hero
David Remnick

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Many thousands gone : the first two centuries of slavery in North America
Ira Berlin

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Divine daughters : liberating the power and passion of women's voices
Rachel L Bagby

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The collected poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Black workers remember : an oral history of segregation, unionism, and the freedom struggle
Michael K Honey

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W. E. B. Du Bois : the fight for equality and the American century, 1919-1963
David L Lewis

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Making Malcolm : the myth and meaning of Malcolm X
Michael Eric Dyson

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Rosa Parks
Douglas Brinkley

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The messenger : the rise and fall of Elijah Muhammad
Karl Evanzz

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The other side of color : African American art in the collection of Camille O. and William H. Crosby, Jr.
David C Driskell

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Sister circle : Black women and work

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Black theater, U.S.A. : forty-five plays by Black Americans, 1847-1974
James V Hatch

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The books of American Negro spirituals, including The book of American Negro spirituals and The second book of Negro spirituals
James Weldon Johnson

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Black women writers at work

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The content of our character : a new vision of race in America
Shelby Steele

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Forged in battle : the Civil War alliance of Black soldiers and white officers
Joseph T Glatthaar

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Simple speaks his mind
Langston Hughes

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Afro-American writing : an anthology of prose and poetry

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Making civil rights law : Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court, 1936-1961
Mark Tushnet

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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave
Frederick Douglass

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African American literature : an anthology of nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and drama

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The color of their skin : education and race in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-89
Robert A Pratt

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In times like these
Charles Haden

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Pryor convictions : and other life sentences
Richard Pryor

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Not so simple : the "Simple" stories by Langston Hughes
Donna Sullivan Harper

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South to a very old place
Albert Murray

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I've been to the mountaintop
Martin Luther King

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Our family table : recipes & food memories from African-American life models

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The substance of things hoped for : a memoir of African-American faith
Samuel D Proctor

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The future of the race
Henry Louis Gates

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King : the photobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charles Johnson

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Anti-racism in U.S. history : the first two hundred years
Herbert Aptheker

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Black profiles in courage : a legacy of African American achievement
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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Black intellectuals : race and responsibility in American life
William M Banks

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Rhapsodies in black : art of the Harlem Renaissance

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Understanding Gloria Naylor
Margaret Earley Whitt

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Sister days : 365 inspired moments in African American women's history
Janus Adams

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The Opportunity reader : stories, poetry, and essays from the Urban League's Opportunity magazine

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White is a state of mind : a memoir
Melba Beals

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In search of democracy : the NAACP writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920-1977)

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Hoop roots
John Edgar Wideman

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Uneven lies : the heroic story of African-Americans in golf
Pete McDaniel

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From my people : 400 years of African American folklore
Daryl Cumber Dance

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You can't steal a gift : Dizzy, Clark, Milt, and Nat
Gene Lees

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Words with wings : a treasury of African-American poetry and art

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Lyrics of sunshine and shadow : the tragic courtship and marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore : a history of love and violence among the African American elite
Eleanor Alexander

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The Routledge atlas of African American history
Jonathan Halperin Earle

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African American humor : the best Black comedy from slavery to today

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The Langston Hughes reader.
Langston Hughes

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Oh pray my wings are gonna fit me well
Maya Angelou

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The words of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King

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Black ice
Lorene Cary

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Black female playwrights : an anthology of plays before 1950

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The papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. Volume 1, Called to serve January 1929-September 1951
Martin Luther King

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The land where the blues began
Alan Lomax

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A W.E.B. Du Bois reader
W E B Du Bois

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Dancing to a black man's tune : a life of Scott Joplin
Susan Curtis

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Frederick Douglass, in his own words
Frederick Douglass

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The Harlem Renaissance : hub of African-American culture, 1920-1930
Steven Watson

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Everyday use
Alice Walker

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Virginia landmarks of Black history : sites on the Virginia landmarks register and the National register of historic places

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They had a dream : the story of African-American astronauts
J Alfred Phelps

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Slavery and freedom in the age of the American Revolution

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Katie's canon : womanism and the soul of the Black community
Katie G Cannon

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Major modern black American writers

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Lay down body : living history in African American cemeteries
Roberta Hughes Wright

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A life for a life : a novel
Ernest Hill

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Africans in America : America's journey through slavery
Charles Johnson

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Too heavy a load : Black women in defense of themselves, 1894-1994
Deborah G White

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The Beauty of creation

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Lanterns : a memoir of mentors
Marian Wright Edelman

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Fire in my bones : transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American gospel
Glenn Hinson

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The Cornel West reader
Cornel West

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