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Library of America volume 333
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor
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Across a turbulent history, Black poets created a rich and multifaceted tradition that has been both a reckoning with American realities and an imaginative response to them. One of the great American art forms, African American poetry encompasses many kinds of verse: formal, experimental, vernacular, lyric, and protest. The anthology opens with moving testaments to the power of poetry as a means of self-assertion, as enslaved people voice their passionate...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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"As the tragic murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement has demonstrated, not being racist is not enough. To fulfill the American ideal, to ensure that all people are equal, you must be actively anti-racist. In this essential guide, Sophie Williams, goes beyond her popular Instagram @officialmillennialblack, providing sharp, simple, and insightful steps anyone can take to be a better ally in the fight against racism. While the book's...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Americans like to insist that we are living in a postracial, color-blind society. In fact, racist thought is alive and well; it has simply become more sophisticated and more insidious. And as historian Ibram X. Kendi argues, racist ideas in this country have a long and lingering history, one in which nearly every great American thinker is complicit. Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-Black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Deborah Rawson Memorial Library - Biography
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Norman Williams Public Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor
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Putney School Library
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Contains essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and Americans abroad.
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Rutland Free Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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"A Black Women's History of the United States is a critical survey of black women's complicated legacy in America, as it takes into account their exploitation and victimization as well as their undeniable and substantial contributions to the country since its inception"--
"A vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are--and have always been--instrumental in shaping our...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Kellogg-Hubbard Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor
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This “bracing corrective to national mythology” around the American civil rights movement “shows us how little we remember, and how much more there is to understand” (New York Times).
“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr....
“Theoharis’s view of history is expansive” as it reveals the diverse, unsung heroes of the movement and criticizes the oversimplification of complex figures like Martin Luther King, Jr....
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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"A groundbreaking history of the antebellum movement for equal rights that reshaped the institutions of freedom after the Civil War. The half century before the Civil War was beset with conflict over freedom as well as slavery: what were the arrangementsof free society, especially for African Americans? Beginning in 1803, many free states enacted black codes that discouraged the settlement and restricted the basic rights of free black people. But...
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Bennington Free Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Fletcher Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Main Library
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""It is staggering that there is no date commemorating the end of slavery in the United States." -Annette Gordon-Reed. The essential, sweeping story of Juneteenth's integral importance to American history, as told by a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and Texas native. Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle, and searing episodes of memoir, Annette Gordon-Reed, the descendant of enslaved people brought to Texas in the 1850s, recounts...
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Ainsworth Public Library - Nonfiction - Main Library
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Bennington Free Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Brooks Memorial Library - Audiobooks - 1st Floor
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In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America.
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Kellogg-Hubbard Library - Fiction - Mezzanine
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Morristown Centennial - Nonfiction - Main Library
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Young Adult
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Deborah Rawson Memorial Library - Nonfiction
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John G. McCullough Free Library - Young Adult
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"In this comprehensive, inspiring, and all-too-relevant history of the Black Panther Party, Kekla Magoon introduces readers to the Panthers' community activism, grounded in the concept of self-defense, which taught Black Americans how to protect and support themselves in a country that treated them like second-class citizens. For too long the Panthers' story has been a footnote to the civil rights movement rather than what it was: a revolutionary...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Biography - 1st Floor
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"A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of color, culture, and time, putting the past into urgent conversation with the present. In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a writer of almanacs, and one of the greatest astronomers of his generation. Banneker then wrote what would become a...
13) The weary blues
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Norman Williams Public Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor
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"Nearly ninety years after its first publication, this celebratory edition of The Weary Blues reminds us of the stunning achievement of Langston Hughes, who was just twenty-four at its first appearance. Beginning with the opening "Proem" (prologue poem)--"I am a Negro: / Black as the night is black, / Black like the depths of my Africa"--Hughes spoke directly, intimately, and powerfully of the experiences of African Americans at a time when their...
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Ainsworth Public Library - Nonfiction - Main Library
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Bennington Free Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor
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Manchester Community Library - Main Library
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"A "choral history" of African Americans covering 400 years of history in the voices of 80 writers, edited by the bestselling, National Book Award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi and Keisha N. Blain. Last year marked the four hundredth anniversary of the first African presence in the Americas--and also launched the Four Hundred Souls project, spearheaded by Ibram X. Kendi, director of the Antiracism Institute of American University, and Keisha Blain,...
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Bennington Free Library - Nonfiction - 2nd Floor
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Guilford Free Library - Nonfiction - Main Library
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"A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that transformed the nation after World War II. But the century...
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Ainsworth Public Library - Nonfiction - Main Library
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Kellogg-Hubbard Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor
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Morristown Centennial - Music - Main Library
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This is a collection of new and selected essays which address the tragic echoes of our time: the unprecedented election of a black president followed by a vicious backlash that elected a white racist. But this book is not just about presidential politics, it also examines the new voices, ideas, and movements for justice that emerged over this period--and the effects of the persistent, haunting shadow of our nation's old and unreconciled history....
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor
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Norman Williams Public Library - Nonfiction - 1st Floor
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Rutland Free Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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"From one of our premier writers, scholars, and public intellectuals: a surprising, inspiring, often boldly infuriating, highly instructive and entertaining compendium of curiosities regarding African Americans. In 1934, 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof: A Short Cut to the World History of the Negro was published by Joel A. Rogers, a largely self-educated black journalist and historian. Now with �elan and erudition--and winning...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Manchester Community Library - Main Library
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"At home and in government, contemporary America finds itself riven by a culture war in which aggression and defensiveness alike are on the rise. It is not alone. In such partisan conditions, how can humans best approach one another across our differences? Taking the study of whiteness and white supremacy as a guiding light, Claudia Rankine explores a series of real encounters with friends and strangers - each disrupting the false comfort of spaces...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Deborah Rawson Memorial Library - Nonfiction
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Fletcher Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Main Library
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"National Book Award-winner Jesmyn Ward takes James Baldwin's 1963 examination of race in America, The Fire Next Time, as a jumping off point for this groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race from the most important voices of her generation and our time. In light of recent tragedies and widespread protests across the nation, The Progressive magazine republished one of its most famous pieces: James Baldwin's 1962 "Letter to My Nephew,"...
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Brooks Memorial Library - Nonfiction - Mezzanine
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Deborah Rawson Memorial Library - Vermont Collection
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Georgia Public Library - Vermont Collection - Vermont
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"An impressive work of historical recovery, Discovering Black Vermont tells the story of three generations of free Blacks trying to build a life and community in northern Vermont in the years following statehood"--