Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"From the writer of The Book of Night Women comes a novel framed as a fictional oral history that explores the events and characters surrounding the attempted assassination of Bob Marley during the political turmoil on Jamaica in the late 1970s"--
On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert to ease political tensions in Kingston, seven gunmen stormed the singer's...
Author
Series
Publisher
PowerKids Press
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A growing number of today's kids have two moms or two dads. The bullying of LGBT youth is an issue that has become a fixture in the news. This book uses age-appropriate text to describe the struggles faced by the LGBT community in America, to introduce people from all walks of life that belong to the LGBT community, and to describe important events that affect all Americans, such as the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
For almost four years, from 2012 through 2016, “Kingston’s Buried Treasures” explored the people, places and events that made New York’s first capital one of America’s most unique communities. With inspirational tales of meteoric rise, and cautionary woes of equally spectacular falls, Kingston’s history tells more than just the story of a city- its arguably the story of a nation. Through war and peace, boom and bust, Presidential candidates,...
Author
Publisher
Black Dome Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a giant high-tech corporation opens a massive new plant on the outskirts of a small, rural, historic city? And what happens when it just as suddenly leaves? Rising quickly in 1954-1955 on a 200-acre former dairy farm, the new IBM location near Kingston, New York, was a major event for the city and the entire Mid-Hudson Valley, at that time a quiet area supported by apparel companies, a dying brick-making industry, agriculture,...
Author
Publisher
Black Dome Press Corp
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The Street that Built a City is more than just a tale of city-building and rich and famous people. It is also the tale of the Irish and German immigrants and others who worked on the boats and the docks and in the brickyards, who taught school, tended shops, and doctored the sick, and whose children played in abandoned mansions and Indian caves. It is a carefully researched community history but of a community barely four blocks long. The houses they...
Author
Publisher
Verso
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The political ferment of the 1960s produced not only the Civil Rights Movement but others in its wake: women's liberation, gay rights, Chicano power, and the Asian American Movement. Here is a definitive history of the social and cultural movement that knit a hugely disparate and isolated set of communities into a political identity - and along the way created a racial group out of marginalized people who had been uncomfortably lumped together as...
Author
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late 1940s, from her home in Kingston, Jamaica, Amy Jacques Garvey launched an extensive letter-writing campaign to defend the Greater Liberia Bill, which would...