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You are a star, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Robbins, Dean, 1957- author.

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2025

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323 ROB

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SD_ILS:794132

Before Elvis : the African American musicians who made the King

Lauterbach, Preston, author

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2025

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781.6408996 LAU

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SD_ILS:790875

Ruby Bridges : a talk with my teacher

Bridges, Ruby, author.

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2025

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379.2 BRI

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SD_ILS:794108

This changes everything : a surprisingly funny story about race, cancer, faith, and other things we don't talk about

Merritt, Tyler, author.

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2025

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616.994 MER

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Written in the waters : a memoir of history, home, and belonging

Roberts, Tara, author.

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2025

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920.573 ROB

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King : a life

Eig, Jonathan, author.

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2025

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323 EIG

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How to live free in a dangerous world : a decolonial memoir

Lawson, Shayla, author.

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2024

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813.6 LAW

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SD_ILS:695863

Becoming Ella Fitzgerald : the jazz singer who transformed American song

Tick, Judith, author.

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2024

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927.8165 FIT

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SD_ILS:700382

Jimmy's rhythm & blues : the extraordinary life of James Baldwin

Meadows, Michelle, author.

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2024

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818.5409 MEA

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I curse you with joy

Haddish, Tiffany, 1979- author.

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2024

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792.76028 HAD

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Fi : a memoir

Fuller, Alexandra, 1969- author.

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2024

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The survivors of the Clotilda : the lost stories of the last captives of the American slave trade

Durkin, Hannah, author.

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2024

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Obama, Barack author.

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Cooper, Christian, author.

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Dakers, Diane, author.

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Daniel, Mary-Alice, author.

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Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- interviewee (expression)

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Haddish, Tiffany, 1979- author.

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Johnson, George M. (George Matthew), 1985- author.

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Jones, Quincy, 1933- interviewee (expression)

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King, Coretta Scott, 1927-2006, author.

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Lawson, Shayla, author.

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Lewis, John, 1940-2020, author.

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Lyons, Kelly Starling, author.

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McCrae, Shane, 1975- author.

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Obama, Barack, author.

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Page, Lisa Frazier, author.

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Patterson, James, 1947- author.

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Pinkney, Andrea Davis, author.

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Reid, Joy-Ann, 1968- author.

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Smith, Jada Pinkett, 1971- author.

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Smith, Will, 1968- author.

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