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Fearless and free : a memoir

Baker, Josephine, 1906-1975, author.

Publication Date

2025

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927.928 BAK

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SD_ILS:791146

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the jazz singer who transformed American song

Tick, Judith, author.

Publication Date

2024

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927.8165 FIT

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SD_ILS:700382

Rock, Rosetta, rock! Roll, Rosetta, roll! : presenting sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock & roll

Bolden, Tonya, author.

Publication Date

2023

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782.254 BOL

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SD_ILS:706689

The green piano : how little me found music

Flack, Roberta, author.

Publication Date

2023

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782.42164 FLA

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SD_ILS:707105

Ella Fitzgerald

Pinkney, Andrea Davis, author.

Publication Date

2023

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782.42165 PIN

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SD_ILS:682940

Lena Horne : goddess reclaimed

Bogle, Donald, author.

Publication Date

2023

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927.845 HOR

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SD_ILS:701551

Why Willie Mae Thornton matters

Denise, Lynnée (DJ), author.

Publication Date

2023

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927.8242 THO

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SD_ILS:691644

Didn't we almost have it all : in defense of Whitney Houston

Kennedy, Gerrick, author.

Publication Date

2022

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927.8242 HOU

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SD_ILS:644453

Marian Anderson

Russell-Brown, Katheryn, 1961- author.

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2022

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782.1 RUS

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SD_ILS:650150

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Eartha & Kitt : a daughter's love story in black and white

Shapiro, Kitt, author.

Publication Date

2021

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927.8242 KIT

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SD_ILS:618190

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She raised her voice! : 50 black women who sang their way into music history

Elizabeth, Jordannah, author.

Publication Date

2021

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782.42164 ELI

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Nina : a story of Nina Simone

Todd, Traci N., author.

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2021

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