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Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All

Sisters in Science: Conversations With Black Women Scientists About Race, Gender, and Their Passion for Science by interviews by Diann Jordan. 18 prominent black women scientists talk about what inspired and daunted them in their desire to become scientists.
Call Number: Q141 .S556 2006
Distinguished African American Scientists of the 20th Century by by James H. Kessler This unique resource chronicles the lives of 100 remarkable men and women. Each biography tells of the scientist's struggles, which often included overcoming prejudice, as they pursued their goals.
Call Number: EBOOK

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DuBois and His Rivals by Raymond Wolters Pre-eminent Black scholar and principle founder of the NAACP, DuBois's pluralist approach found rivals in both Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey.
Call Number: E-BOOK
Ella Baker & the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision by Barbara Ransby This prize-winning book chronicles Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher, from her early experiences in depression-era Harlem to the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Call Number: E-BOOK and print at Sherrill Library - E185.97.B214 R36 2003 Lesley Sherrill stacks
The Preacher and the Politician: Jeremiah Wright, Barack Obama, and Race in America by Clarence E. Walker and Gregory D. Smithers Obama’s nomination was nearly derailed by his relationship with Jeremiah Wright, the outspoken former pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ on the South Side of Chicago.
Call Number: E908.3 W35 2009 Lesley Sherrill stacks
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks by by Jeanne Theoharis
Beacon Press, 2013 - F334.M753 P3883 2013b

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Bearing Witness: Selections From African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century by edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. This collection from the rich literature of African American autobiography documents the experience of being black in America, from slavery to present day, in the words of Frederick Douglass, Toni Morrison, and 40 other contributors.
Call Number: E185.96 .B35 1991
NEW - Notable Caribbeans and Caribbean Americans: A Biographical Dictionary by by Serafin Mendez and Gail A. Cueto
Call Number: E-BOOK
ABC-CLIO, 2003.

Up From History: The Life of Booker T. Washington by by Robert J. Norrell African American educator Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), who organized the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Tuskegee, AL, was a sought-after speaker, an adviser to several Presidents, and a voracious reader and writer.
Call Number: E185.97.W4 N67 2009
To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells by Mia Bay Born to slaves in 1862, Ida B. Wells became a fearless antilynching crusader, women’s rights advocate, and journalist.
Call Number: E185.97.W55 B39 2009 - Sherrill Library 2nd fl.
Nathan B. Young and The Struggle over Black Higher Education by by Antonio F. Holland Examines Nathan Young's 20-year academic career, during which he attempted to uphold W. E. B. Du Bois's vision of liberal arts education for blacks while balancing it with the agricultural/vocational education advocated by Booker T. Washington.
Call Number: EBOOK