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"The story of a black man who passes for white and becomes a race-baiting U.S. senator. When he is shot on the Senate floor, the first visitor in hospital is a black musician-turned-preacher who raised him. As the two men talk, their respective stories come out"--
Author
Series
Reverend Curtis Black volume 10
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
392 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
After an argument sends their son's girlfriend into early labor, Reverend Curtis Black and his wife experience a rift between them that may send her into the arms of another man.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
326 p.; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maintaining a cordial relationship with the unfaithful Charlotte while planning a divorce when their son graduates from high school, the Reverend Curtis Black resists his wife's efforts to reconcile and considers a proposition by a woman who desperately wants to marry him.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The untold story of a remarkable American civil rights pioneer, Father Divine, who at one time had over a million followers worldwide but whose story is little known because he claimed that he was God incarnate.
6) Loudmouth
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Rabble rouser or activist? Opportunist or trailblazer? During his six-decade journey from pastoral prodigy to racial justice firebrand to elder media statesman, the Reverend Al Sharpton has been a polarizing figure on the national stage. It is the definitive look at his life and legacy, featuring President Barack Obama, Reverend Jesse Jackson, and Senator Chuck Schumer.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Explores the intersecting lives of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. and gospel singer Mahalia Jackson at the historic moment when their joined voices inspired landmark changes.
Author
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
xiv, 212 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
At the forefront of a new era in American history, Briggs v. Elliott was one of the first five school segregation lawsuits argued consecutively before the U. S. Supreme Court in 1952. The resulting collective 1954 landmark decision, known as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, struck down legalized segregation in American public schools. The genesis of Briggs was in 1947, when the black community of Clarendon County, South Carolina, took action...
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