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41Title:  Between the devil and the sea: the life of James Forten    
 Creator:  Johnston, Brenda A. 
 Miller, Don, 1923-
 Publication:  Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York,[1974] 
 Notes:  Bibliography: p. 125. 
 Call #:  E185.97 F737J6 
 Extent:  125 p. illus. 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Forten, James | Antislavery movements -- United States | African Americans -- Biography
 
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42Title:  Alphaeus Hunton: the unsung valiant    
 Creator:  Hunton, Dorothy. 
 Publication:  D.K. Hunton, Richmond Hill, N.Y. (100-23 93rd Ave., Richmond Hill 11418),c1986. 
 Notes:  Imprint data from stamps on prelim. leaves. Includes bibliographies. 
 Call #:  E185.97 H955H9 
 Extent:  ix, 186 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Hunton, Alphaeus, -- 1903-1970 | African Americans -- Biography | Africanists -- United States -- Biography
 
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43Title:  Jesse Jackson & the politics of race    
 Creator:  Landess, Tom. 
 Quinn, Richard M., 1945-
 Publication:  Jameson Books, Ottawa, Ill,c1985. 
 Notes:  Includes index. Bibliography: p. 261-263. 
 Call #:  E185.97 J13L25 
 Extent:  269 p. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Jackson, Jesse, -- 1941- | African Americans -- Biography | Civil rights workers -- United States -- Biography
 
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44Title:  Road without turning: the story of Reverend James H. Robinson; an autobiography    
 Creator:  Robinson, James Herman. 
 Publication:  Farrar, Straus, New York,[1950] 
 Call #:  E185.97 R662A3 
 Extent:  312 p. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Robinson, James Herman | African Americans -- Biography | African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Biography
 
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45Title:  Booker T. Washington: the wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915    
 Creator:  Harlan, Louis R. 
 Publication:  Oxford University Press, New York,1983. 
 Notes:  Includes bibliographical references and index. 
 Call #:  E185.97 W317H4 
 Extent:  xiv, 548 p. : port. ; 24 cm. 
 Subjects:  Washington, Booker T., -- 1856-1915 | African Americans -- Biography | Educators -- United States -- Biography
 
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46Title:  Contributions of Black women to America, 1776-1977, annual report for    
 Creator:  Benedict College Community Development Institute. 
 Publication:  Columbia, S.C,1979]- 
 Notes:  Marianna W. Davis, project director. 
 Call #:  E185.86 B463 
 Extent:  v. illus. 28 cm. 
 Subjects:  African American women | Woman -- Biography | African Americans -- Biography
 
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47Title:  Black Americans in defense of our nation    
 Creator:  United States Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel/Equal Opportunity. 
 Publication:  Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy/Equal Opportunity, Dept. of Defense, For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O, Washington, D.C.],[1991] 
 Notes:  Title on added t.p.: A pictorial documentary of the Black American male and female participation and involvement in the military affairs of the United States of America. Shipping list no.: 91-499-P. 008-000-00585-1 Item 306 
 Call #:  UB418 A47B62 1991 
 Extent:  [6], 300 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm. 
 Subjects:  African American soldiers | African Americans -- Biography | United States -- Armed Forces -- Afro-Americans
 
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48Title:  Out of the depths: or, The triumph of the cross    
 Creator:  Plummer, Nellie Arnold, 1860- 
 Publication:  Hyattsville, Md,1927. 
 Notes:  "The story of a colored American ... Adam Francis Plummer." 
 Call #:  BX6455 P735P7 
 Extent:  412 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  Plummer, Adam Francis, -- 1819-1905 | Plummer family | African Americans -- Biography
 
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49Title:  Anyplace but here    
 Alt. Title:  They seek a city    
 Creator:  Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 
 Conroy, Jack, 1899-
 Publication:  Hill and Wang, New York,[1966] 
 Notes:  "A revised and expanded version of They seek a city."--Dust jacket. Bibliography: p. 349-360. 
 Call #:  E185.6 B71 
 Extent:  viii, 372 p. 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- History -- 1877-1964 | African Americans -- Biography | Migration, Internal -- United States
 
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50Title:  They seek a city    
 Creator:  Bontemps, Arna Wendell, 1902-1973 
 Conroy, Jack, 1899-
 Publication:  Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc, Garden City, New York,1945. 
 Notes:  At head of title: Arna Bontemps and Jack Conroy. "A selected list of references and sources": p. 253-258. 
 Call #:  E185.6 B72 
 Extent:  xvii p., 1 Á., 266 p. 22 cm. 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- History | African Americans -- Biography | Migration, Internal -- United States
 
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51Title:  The freedmen's book    
 Creator:  Child, Lydia Maria Francis, 1802-1880 
 Publication:  Ticknor and Fields, Boston,1865. 
 Call #:  E185.2 C535 
 Extent:  3 p. l., [v]-vi, 277 p. 18 cm. 
 Subjects:  African Americans | African Americans -- Biography | Freedmen
 
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52Title:  Sketch of the life and travels of Joseph Deane    
 Creator:  Deane, Joseph, 1829- 
 Publication:  Printed by J.H. Pearsol, Lancaster, Pa,1854. 
 Notes:  Preface signed : F.D. Lancaster, 1853. "The production of a colored man."-Pref. Experiences as a sailor before the mast. 
 Call #:  E185 C283 
 Extent:  35 p. 16 cm. 
 Subjects:  Voyages and travels | African Americans -- Biography | African American sailors
 
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53Title:  The condition, elevation, emigration, and destiny of the colored people of the United States: Politically considered    
 Creator:  Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885 
 Publication:  The author, Philadelphia,1852. 
 Call #:  E185 D337 
 Extent:  215 p. 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  African Americans -- History | African Americans -- Biography | African Americans -- Colonization
 
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54Title:  The world of William Howard Day    
 Creator:  Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 
 Publication:  n.p,n.d.] 
 Notes:  Typewritten. Copy of a speech made by W.E.B. Dubois at the dedication of the marker erected over the grave of William Howard Day on May 30, 1950 in the Lincoln Cemetery in Penbrook, a borough adjoining Harrisburg, [Pa.] on the east. With this are ten letters and copies of letters to and from Mr. Russell H. Davis in the interest of William Howard Day, also two accounts from Harrisburg papers. 
 Call #:  E185.97 D275 D Oversize 
 Extent:  [9] leaves. 32 cm. 
 Subjects:  Day, William Howard, -- d. 1900 | African Americans -- Biography | African American newspapers
 
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55Title:  Booker T. Washington's own story of his life and work: including an authoritative sixty-four page supplement    
 Creator:  Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 
 Holsey, Albon L., b. 1883
 Publication:  J.L. Nichols, Atlanta, Ga,c1915. 
 Notes:  Next to the last numbered page 458; last page numbered 512, with note: "Forty-eight pages are here added to the folios to include full page illustrations not before numbered, making a total of 512 pages." Earlier editions published under title: An autobiography: the story of my life and work. "The original autobiography brought up to date with a complete account of Dr. Washington's sickness and death. Containing the only photos of the funeral and burial." 
 Call #:  E185.97 W317B 
 Extent:  512 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. 
 Subjects:  Washington, Booker T., -- 1856-1915 | Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute | African Americans -- Biography
 
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56Title:  Narrative of Henry Watson, a fugitive slave    
 Creator:  Watson, Henry, b. 1813? 
 Publication:  Bela Marsh, Boston,1850. 
 Call #:  E450 W339b 
 Extent:  48 p. ; 19 cm. 
 Subjects:  Slavery -- Mississippi | Fugitive slaves -- Biography | African Americans -- Biography
 
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57Title:  Colored hero of the Battle of Lake Erie    
 Publication:   
 Notes:  A photographic reproduction of an article supposed to have been first printed in an Erie, Pa. paper. The illustration is reproduced from the Corry Journal, Corry, Pa. about 1882. A letter from C.A. Dickson, the donor, accompanies the facsimile. 
 Call #:  E356 E68C8 Oversize 
 Extent:  37 cm. 
 Subjects:  Williams, Anthony, -- d. ca. 1834 | Lake Erie, Battle of, 1813 | African Americans -- Biography
 
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58Title:  The Negro in sports    
 Creator:  Henderson, Edwin Bancroft 
 Publication:  The Associated publishers, inc, Washington, D.C,[c1939] 
 Call #:  E185.88 H496 
 Extent:  5 p. l, 371 p. illus. (incl. ports.) 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  African American athletes | Sports -- United States | African Americans -- Biography
 
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59Title:  I've known rivers: lives of loss and liberation    
 Creator:  Lawrence-Lightfoot, Sara, 1944- 
 Publication:  Penguin Books, New York, N.Y,1995, c1994. 
 Notes:  Originally published: Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub., c1994. Includes index. 
 Call #:  E185.96 L425 
 Extent:  xvi, 653 p. ; 21 cm. 
 Subjects:  Wills, Cheryle | African Americans -- Biography | African Americans -- Interviews
 
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60Title:  The experience of Rev. Thomas H. Jones who was a slave for forty-three years    
 Creator:  Jones, Thomas H. 
 Publication:  A.T. Bliss & Co, Boston,1880. 
 Call #:  E444 J78 1880 
 Extent:  77, [6] p. (i.e. 83 p.) front. 
 Subjects:  Jones, Thomas H | Slaves -- United States -- Biography | African Americans -- Biography
 
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