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Prisoners of War: The simmering inferno

2017
"J?zef joins an underground movement smuggling weapons and kerosene into the Jewish ghetto in central Poland. When Germans march in, the resistance strikes, but the Germans capture J?zef making him lose more than just his freedom"--Amazon.

Civil rights movement

2014
"Presents information on the civil rights movement in the United States between 1954 and 1968, including background information, key events in the movement, and influential people and groups. Intended for fifth to eighth grade students."--Provided by publisher.

Fighting for America

black soldiers, the unsung heroes of World War II
2005

The longest hatred

a Nucleus production for Thames Television & WGBH
1993
This stunning documentary takes an unsparing look at the ways words have shaped the experience of Jewish people, from the first century to the present - a revealing history of anti-Semitism with roots long before the Holocaust and branches that continue to sprout in surprising places today.

Bigmama didn't shop at Woolworth's

1996
Memoir of the author's childhood in the Candy Hill neighborhood of Bryan, Texas, describing the indignities and economic hardships, as well as the love and warmth of everyday life for the African-Americans living in the segregated area in the years before the civil rights movement of the 1960s.

Trouble in mind

Black southerners in the age of Jim Crow
1998
A history of African-Americans in the years of the Jim Crow laws of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, looking at how African-American southerners struggled, worked, tried to educate themselves, and learned to live with the subordination and separation of their race.

Great ambitions

from the "separate but equal" doctrine to the birth of the NAACP (1896-1909)
1995
Looks at the experiences of African-Americans at the turn of the century, from the 1896 Supreme Court ruling legalizing segregation to the birth of the NAACP in 1909.

Stride toward freedom

the Montgomery story
1987
Chronicles the Montgomery, Alabama bus boycott sparked by Mrs. Rosa Park's refusal to give up her seat to a white male, describing the plans and problems of a nonviolent campaign, reprisals by the white community, and the eventual attainment of desegrated city bus service.

Dark ghetto

dilemmas of social power
1989
Describes how the ghetto separates Blacks not only from white people, but also from opportunities and resources.

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