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Life Is So Good: Overcoming Adversity

Eastfield Common Book 2011-2012

Military

Unjustly dishonored: an African American division in World War I by Robert H. Ferrell
Call Number: D 639 .N4 F47 2011
Fighting for America: Black soldiers--the unsung heroes of World War II by Christopher Paul Moore
Call Number: D 810 .N4 M65 2005
Freedom flyers: the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II by J. Todd Moye
Call Number: D 790.252 332nd .M69 2010

African American Inventors

African Americans in science, math, and invention by Ray Spangenburg; Diane Moser
Call Number: Q 141 .S6285 2003
Reference Collection (Library Use Only)
George Washington Carver: his life & faith in his own words by William J. Federer
Call Number: S 417 .C3 F45 2002
Distinguished African American scientists of the 20th century by James H. Kessler
Call Number: Q 141 .D535 1996
Reference Collection (Library Use Only)

Sports

Satch, Dizzy & Rapid Robert: the wild saga of interracial baseball before Jackie Robinson by Timothy M. Gay
Call Number: GV 863 .A1 G398 2010
Unforgivable blackness: the rise and fall of Jack Johnson by Geoffrey C. Ward
Call Number: GV 1132 .J7 W37 2006
Joe Louis: hard times man by Randy Roberts
Call Number: GV 1132 .L6 R63 2010

Websites

Jackie Robinson swinging a bat in Dodgers uniform

Photo by Bob Sandberg, 1954.

African American Inventors
African-American Firsts: Athletes
African American Odyssey
African Americans (PBS)
Marion Butts: Lens on Dallas
Texas/Dallas History & Archives Division, Dallas Public Library
BlackPast.org
African American History Timeline: 1901-2000
The African-American Mosaic
Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture

Leadership

Icons of Black America : breaking barriers and crossing boundaries by Matthew C. Whitaker
Call Number: E 185.96 .I26 2011 v.1-3
Reference Collection (Library Use Only)
To the mountaintop: Martin Luther King Jr.'s sacred mission to save America, 1955-1968 by Stewart Burns
Call Number: E 185.97 .K5 B798 2004
Black leadership by Manning Marable
Call Number: E 185.615 .M2783 1998

Databases

African American Experience
Explore African-American history, culture, and contemporary issues through relevant essays, biographies, speeches, and court cases. Search by keyword or browse by time period to find photos, maps, and primary documents.

Daily Life Through History
NewsBank
Dallas Morning News Historical Archives, 1885-1984

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