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Start Your Weekend at the Library!
Enjoy stories, songs, and hands-on activities.
(All Ages)
Saturdays: 10:30 a.m. at Roy and Helen Hall Library (Hall)
Special Story Themes:
June 15: Juneteenth
June 29: Pride Month
July 6: Independence Day
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
This program from Tony Brown's Journal continues the vocal extravaganza by historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) that creates a unique music history lesson on stage in Las Vegas. Choirs, groups, and soloists from the nation’s black colleges showcase their talents in riveting stage performances.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The great grandson of a slave, Thurgood Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on July 2, 1908. At the age of 25, Marshall graduated first in his class from Howard Law and joined the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the nation's largest and oldest civil rights organization. As NAACP counsel, Marshall used the constitution to successfully argue for a slew of rights now taken for granted, and forced the University...
Series
Pub. Date
[2010], c1999
Language
English
Description
A wave of bold American writing from both white and black authors gave expression to Southern life during World War II and the years that followed. This program tells the story of that literary development up to the era of the Civil Rights movement. It presents the work of Eudora Welty, Richard Wright, Robert Penn Warren, Ralph Ellison, Lillian Smith, Flannery O'Connor, and others - as well as a revealing 1997 interview with Welty herself. An inventive...
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