Black History Month: Nashville Perspective

1) Temple's Tigerbelles: an illustrated history of the women who outran the world

Author

Lewis, Dwight

2) The quickest kid in Clarksville

Author

Miller, Pat Zietlow

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Growing up in the segregated town of Clarksville, Tennessee, in the 1960s, Alta's family cannot afford to buy her new sneakers--but she still plans to attend the parade celebrating her hero Wilma Rudolph's three Olympic gold medals.

3) Mudbound: a novel

Author

Jordan, Hillary

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In post-World War II Mississippi, two families, one white and one black, struggle to survive in the Jim Crow South.

4) pariah

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5) Bessie

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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.

6) Star Kitty's Revenge

Author

Joi

7) Trial and triumph: essays in Tennessee's African American history

8) The Bells Are Tolling

Author

The Fairfield Four

9) Tennessee State University: off the record

Author

Petty, Raven

10) Tennessee State University (1912-1974): a history of an institution with implications for the future

Author

Fancher, Evelyn Pitts

11) Tigerbelle: the Wyomia Tyus story

Author

Tyus, Wyomia

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In 1968, Wyomia Tyus became the first person ever to win gold medals in the 100-meter sprint in two consecutive Olympic Games, a feat that would not be repeated for twenty years or exceeded for almost fifty. Tigerbelle chronicles Tyus's journey from her childhood as the daughter of a tenant dairy farmer through her Olympic triumphs to her post-competition struggles to make a way for herself and other female athletes. Tigerbelle helps to fill the gap...

12) McKissack & McKissack documents: ca. 1939-1978

Author

McKissack & McKissack

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Scope and content: A small quantity of documents dating ca. 1939-1978 relating to the McKissack & McKissack architectural firm of Nashville, Tenn. Materials include two histories of the organization written prior to 1950; the firm's application for National Defense Construction Projects with the Federal government during World War II, including highlighting its work at the Tuskegee Army Airfield where the 99th Pursuit Squadron (Tuskegee Airmen) would...

13) North Edgefield remembered: story of a Nashville neighborhood

Author

McKee, C. William

14) Intra-urban travel patterns of the North Nashville, Tennessee, Black community, 1969 & 1975

Author

Kithcart, Phillip Eugene

15) North Nashville: a history of urban development

Author

Mathews, Robert C. H

16) North Nashville and Germantown: yesterday and today

17) Ada's rules: a sexy skinny novel

Author

Randall, Alice

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Ada Howard is the wife of the preacher at Nashville's Full Love Baptist Tabernacle. With a whole congregation to help tend to, plus the kids at the daycare where she works, two grown daughters, and two ailing parents, Ada's busy taking care of a lot of people. She hardly has time to take care of herself. And her husband's been so busy lately she's suspicious some other woman may be taking care of him...

Then it comes: the announcement

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18) The wind done gone

Author

Randall, Alice

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In this daring and provocative literary parody which has captured the interest and imagination of a nation, Alice Randall explodes the world created in GONE WITH THE WIND, a work that more than any other has defined our image of the antebellum South. Taking sharp aim at the romanticized, whitewashed mythology perpetrated by this southern classic, Randall has ingeniously conceived a multilayered, emotionally complex tale of her own - that of Cynara,

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19) Soul food love: healthy recipes inspired by one hundred years of cooking in a Black family

Author

Randall, Alice

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A mother-daughter duo reclaims and redefines soul food by mining the traditions of four generations of black women and creating 80 healthy recipes to help everyone live longer and stronger.

NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • “Soul Food Love has preserved our traditions but reinvented how they’re prepared. Its focus on health is a godsend.”—Viola Davis

“This...

20) I heard God talking to me: William Edmondson and his stone carvings

Author

Spires, Elizabeth