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Graphic Books January 2015
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The HPLQ reading series launches with the groundbreaking graphic novel, March: Book One, an engaging and award-winning first-hand account of John Lewis’ lifelong struggle for civil and human rights. Spanning his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the birth of the Nashville Student Movement aimed at tearing down segregation through nonviolent lunch counter sit-ins, March: Book One builds to a climax on the steps of City Hall.
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See It: Civil Rights Movement in the United States
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March. Book one
by John Lewis
A first-hand account of the author's lifelong struggle for civil and human rights spans his youth in rural Alabama, his life-changing meeting with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the birth of the Nashville Student Movement
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The silence of our friends
by Mark Long
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age tale set in 1967 Texas follows the experiences of a white family from a notoriously racist suburb and a black family from Houston's most disadvantaged community who cross color lines to defend five black college students unjustly charged with the murder of a policeman. Illustrated by the Eisner Award-winning creator of Swallow Me Whole. Original.
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King : a comic book biography
by Ho Che Anderson
A groundbreaking graphic novel about Martin Luther King records all of the key events of the civil rights leader's life in this unique and compelling format, from the violence of the Southern police to the internal struggles that marked the birth of the civil rights movement in America. Tween and up.
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Malcolm X : a graphic biography
by Andrew Helfer
Malcolm Little's transformation from a black youth beaten down by Jim Crow America into Malcolm X, the charismatic, controversial, and doomed national spokesman for the nation of Islam is captured in this thoroughly researched and passionately drawn graphic biography.
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Little Rock nine
by Marshall Poe
William makes friends with Thomas, the son of his family's black maid, and they both become involved with an attempt to integrate a high school in their town of Little Rock, Arkansas
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Students for a Democratic Society : a graphic history
by Harvey Pekar
Created in the form of a graphic novel, an illustrated history of the Students for a Democratic Society organization details the 1962 convention during which the group prepared the Port Huron Statement, drafted by Tom Haden, its role during the tumultuous era of the 1960s, and its final meeting in 1969 during which the SDS was shattered into myriad factions.
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Know It: African American History, Real and Imagined
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African-American classics
by Tom Pomplun
Twenty-three stories and poems by African-American authors are retold in graphic novel format
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Still I rise : a cartoon history of African Americans by Roland Owen LairdRoland Laird and Elihu Bey take the form to another level, using cartoons to tell the rich history of the achievements, struggles, hopes, suffering, and triumphs of people of African descent in America. In the process, they bring to light many surprising and little-known facts of American history, making the book a joy to both those who thought they knew it all already and those learning history for the first time.
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Bayou. Volume one
by Jeremy Love
After a terrifying creature emerges from the swamp and takes her white playmate, Lee Wagstaff's father is accused of the kidnapping and Lee must enlist the help of a blues-singing swamp monster named Bayou to clear his name
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Nat Turner
by Kyle Baker
Tells the story of Nat Turner and the Southampton County, Virginia, slave rebellion with comic-style illustrations, occasional narration, and passages from historical texts
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Cleburne : a graphic novel
by Justin Murphy
Based on a controversial true story, Irish Immigrant and Confederate General Patrick Cleburne creates a proposal to enlist slaves to fight for the South in the Civil War in exchange for their freedom--an idea that sends Cleburne's life down a perilous path. Original. 10,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo.
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Incognegro
by Mat Johnson
"The early 20th Century: an era when lynchings were commonplace throughout the American South. To most of the press, this epidemic of racial murder wan't even news. But a few courageous reporters from the North risked their lives to expose these atrocities. They were light-skinned African-American men who could 'pass' for white. They called this dangerous assignment 'going incognegro.' Zane Pinchback, a reporter for the New York-based New Holland Herald, barely escapes with his life after his latest 'incognegro' story goes bad. But when he returns to the sanctuary of Harlem, he's sent on a new story-- the arrest of his own brother, charged with the brutal murder of a white woman in Mississippi" -- from dust jacket
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The Harlem Hellfighters
by Max Brooks
This fictionalized account of the first African-American regiment, called the Harlem Hellfighters by their enemies, to fight in World War I relates the heroic journey these soldiers undertook for a chance to fight for America. Original. 150,000 first printing.
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Imagine It: African American Superheroes
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Shadoweyes in love : In Love
by Ross Campbell
Scout Montana has always fought solo as the superhuman vigilante Shadoweyes, but she winds up with company when her longtime crush Noah and new friend Sparkle want to join the fight
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Super black : American pop culture and black superheroes
by Adilifu Nama
Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice.
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Black superheroes, Milestone comics, and their fans
by Jeffrey A. Brown
Black Superheroes gives details about the founding of Milestone and reports on the secure niche its work and its image achieved in the marketplace. Tracing the company's history and discussing its creators, their works, and the fans, this book gauges Milestone alongside other black comic book publishers, mainstream publishers, and the history of costumed characters.
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