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4) Works
Author
Series
Library of America volume 55, etc
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
1991
Language
English
7) Roots
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 48
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawing on the oral traditions handed down in his family for generations, the author traces his origins back to the seventeen-year-old Kunta Kinte, who was abducted from his home in Gambia and transported as a slave to colonial America. In this account Haley provides an imaginative rendering of the lives of seven generations of black men and women.
16) The Black West
Author
Publisher
Open Hand Pub
Language
English
Description
A history of the black people who participated in the development of the Western frontier in the United States, in such categories as the explorers, fur traders, early settlers, slaves, cowboys, and soldiers.
Author
Series
America in the King years volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1988
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
Colin Powell is the embodiment of the American dream. He was born in Harlem to immigrant parents from Jamaica. He knew the rough life of the streets. He overcame a barely average start at school. Then he joined the Army. The rest is history--Vietnam, the Pentagon, Panama, Desert Storm--but a history that until now has been known only on the surface. Here, for the first time, Colin Powell himself tells us how it happened, in a memoir distinguished...
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