1907-1994

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1907-1994

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the life of Cab Calloway
2013
A biography of African American bandleader Cab Calloway, discussing his childhood in Rochester, New York, his life of hustling on the streets of Baltimore, and his great success despite racial and social boundaries.

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a memoir of Dachau
2007
A factual narrative of Father Jean Bernard's experiences while he was imprisoned with over three thousand other clergymen in Dachau during World War II.

Levittown

two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America's legendary suburb
2009

Levittown

two families, one tycoon, and the fight for civil rights in America's legendary suburb
2010
Provides an account of events in 1957 when the Wechslers, a white, Jewish, communist family, secretly arranged for the Myerses, an African-American family, to buy a home in Levittown, Pennsylvania, a suburb designed to help people achieve the American dream, but which was planned for whites only.
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