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[2015]., Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Bessie Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Bessie Smith's transformation from a struggling young singer into 'The Empress of the Blues', who became one of the most successful recording artists of the 1920s and is an enduring icon today.
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2024., Adult, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. Call No: DVD Fic Color Availability:1 of 1 At Your LibraryPurchased with the Russell T. Tutt Library Book Fund Summary Note: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
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By Spielberg, Steven, 1946- Kennedy, Kathleen, 1954- Marshall, Frank Jones, Quincy, 1933- Meyjes, Menno Glover, Danny Caesar, Adolph, d. 1986 Avery, Margaret Chong, Rae Dawn Goldberg, Whoopi, 1950- Winfrey, Oprah Daviau, Allen Riva, J. Michael Kahn, Michael, 1935- Walker, Alice, 1944- Warner Bros Warner Home Video (Firm)[2003], p1985., General, Warner Home Video Call No: BLK DVD Fic Color Edition: Two-disc special ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The heart-wrenching story of a young black girl in the early 20th century who's forced into a brutal marriage and separated from her sister.
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2017., Adult, Paramount Call No: BLK DVD Fic Fences Edition: DVD version. Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
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2020., Adult, 125, Universal Call No: BLK DVD Fic Harriet Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based on the thrilling and inspirational life of an iconic American freedom fighter, the movie tells the extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman's escape from slavery and transformation into one of America's greatest heroes. Her courage, ingenuity, and tenacity freed hundreds of slaves and changed the course of history.
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By Green, Brunson Columbus, Chris Barnathan, Michael Taylor, Tate Howard, Bryce Dallas, 1981- Tyson, Cicely Stone, Emma Chastain, Jessica, 1977- Vogel, Mike Spencer, Octavia Davis, Viola, 1965- Spacek, Sissy Janney, Allison Goldblatt, Stephen, 1945- Winborne, Hughes Newman, Thomas, 1955- Stockett, Kathryn Dreamworks Pictures Reliance Entertainment (Firm) Participant[2011]., Touchstone Home Entertainment Call No: BLK DVD Fic Help Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
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2017., Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Hidden F Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: As the United States raced against Russia to put a man in space, NASA found untapped talent in a group of African-American female mathematicians that served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in U.S. history. Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, and Katherine Johnson crossed all gender, race, and professional lines while their brilliance and desire to dream big, beyond anything ever accomplished before by the human race, firmly cemented them in U.S. history as true American heroes.
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c2006., Adult, Universal Pictures Call No: BLK DVD Fic Idlewild Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Set in the Prohibition-era American South, a speakeasy performer and club manager Rooster must contend, not only with gangsters who have their eyes on the club, but also his piano player and partner Percival. Percival must choose between his love for Angel or his obligations to his father.
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2019., Adult, 119, Entertainment One Films Canada Inc. Call No: BLK DVD Fic Beale Edition: Blu-Ray. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A timeless love story set in early 1970s Harlem involving newly engaged nineteen-year- old Tish and her fiance Fonny who have a beautiful future ahead. But their plans are derailed when Fonny is arrested for a crime he did not commit. Now the pair and their families must fight for justice in the name of love and the promise of the American dream.
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[2017]., Adult, HBO Home Entertainment Call No: BLK DVD Fic Immortal Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tells the story of Henrietta Lacks, an African-American woman whose cells were used in the 1950s to create the first immortal human cell line resulting in medical breakthroughs.
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2022., Adult, 145, Warner Bros. Call No: DVD NEW BLK Fic King R Edition: Widescreen ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Based on the true story that will inspire the world, follow the journey of Richard Williams, an undeterred father instrumental in raising two of the most extraordinarily gifted athletes of all time, who will end up changing the sport of tennis forever.