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A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
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"In The Ledger and the Chain, prize-winning historian Joshua D. Rothman tells the disturbing story of the Franklin and Armfield company and the men who built it into the largest and most powerful slave trading company in the United States. In so doing, he reveals the central importance of the domestic slave trade to the development of American capitalism and the expansion of the American nation. Few slave traders were more successful than Isaac Franklin,...
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A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
The miracle: The inspiring true story behind one of the greatest moments in American sports history - the 1980 United States ice hockey team's Olympic victory against the Soviet Union.
Remember the Titans: A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast...
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Kimani romance volume 313
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"Six years ago, Nigel Johns lost the only woman he ever loved. Now, the successful financial consultant intends to prove to Regina Gibson that he's a changed man. Except, his ex-fiancée isn't welcoming him with open arms. In fact, she's doing everything she can to keep him out of her life and away from her painful secret. Until an unexpected night of rekindled passion gives him hope for a second chance... After she walked away from Nigel, Regina...
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In the fall of 1862 Julia Wilbur left her family's farm in New York, and headed to Washington DC. As an abolitionist, the forty-seven-year-old left a sad but stable life, headed toward the chaos of the Civil War, and spent most of the next several years in Alexandria devising ways to aid recently escaped slaves and hospitalized Union soldiers. This book shapes her diaries and other primary sources into a historical narrative revealing a woman who...
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Details a little-known chapter in civil rights history. Choreographed by Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a black attorney from Alexdandria, Virginia, five young men in 1939 staged what is believed to be the nation's first sit-in at a public library just outside Washington, D.C. They were protesting the "separate, but equal" treatment of African-Americans. Includes a dramatization of the 1939 sit-in.
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