Let the fire burn / School of Media & Public Affairs, the George Washington University ; Sundance Institute ; the Film Sales Company ; directed and produced by Jason Osder ; execut...

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Race and renaissance : African Americans in Pittsburgh since World War II / edited by Joe W. Trotter and Jared N. Day.

Subjects: “…Community development Pennsylvania Pittsburgh.…”
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The WPA History of the Negro in Pittsburgh.

Subjects: “…African Americans Pennsylvania Pittsburgh History.…”
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Child care in black and white : working parents and the history of orphanages / Jessie B. Ramey. by Ramey, Jessie B.

Subjects: “…Orphanages Pennsylvania Pittsburgh History.…”
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On the Edge of Freedom : the Fugitive Slave Issue in South Central Pennsylvania, 1820-1870. by G.Smith, David

Table of Contents: “…Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 South Central Pennsylvania, Fugitive Slaves, and the Underground Railroad -- 2 Thaddeus Stevensâ€? …”
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A fragile freedom : African American women and emancipation in the antebellum city / Erica Armstrong Dunbar. by Dunbar, Erica Armstrong

Subjects: “…African American women Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 19th century.…”
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Night catches us / Magnolia Pictures ; a SimonSays Entertainment production in association with Gigantic Pictures ; a film by Tanya Hamilton ; producer, Sean Costello, Jason Orans...

Subjects: “…African Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Drama.…”
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Bloody Dawn : the Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North. by Slaughter, Thomas P.

Subjects: “…Riots Pennsylvania Christiana History 19th century.…”
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Black Panther Party and transformative pedagogy : place-based education in Philadelphia / Omari L. Dyson. by Dyson, Omari L.

Subjects: “…African Americans Civil rights Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 20th century.…”
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Tasting freedom : Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America / Daniel R. Biddle and Murray Dubin. by Biddle, Daniel R.

Subjects: “…Free African Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Biography.…”
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Making good neighbors : civil rights, liberalism, and integration in postwar Philadelphia / by Abigail Perkiss. by Perkiss, Abigail, 1981-

Subjects: “…Civil rights Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 20th century.…”
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Peaceable kingdom lost : the Paxton Boys and the destruction of William Penn's holy experiment / Kevin Kenny. by Kenny, Kevin, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Newcomers -- Settlers and squatters -- Expansion -- Fraud -- A hunger for land -- Braddock's defeat -- Pennsylvania goes to war -- Negotiations -- Westward journeys -- Conquest -- Indian uprising -- Rangers -- Conestoga Indiantown -- Lancaster workhouse -- Panic in Philadelphia -- The Declaration and Remonstrance -- A proper spirit of jealousy and revenge -- Christian white savages -- Under the tyrant's foot -- Killers -- Mercenaries -- Revolutionaries.…”
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Wobblies on the waterfront : interracial unionism in progressive-era Philadelphia / Peter Cole. by Cole, Peter, 1969-

Subjects: “…Stevedores Labor unions Pennsylvania Philadelphia History.…”
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If there is no struggle there is no progress : Black politics in twentieth-century Philadelphia / edited by James Wolfinger ; with a foreword by Heather Ann Thompson.

Subjects: “…African Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Politics and government 20th century.…”
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Notes from a colored girl : the Civil War pocket diaries of Emilie Frances Davis / Karsonya Wise Whitehead. by Whitehead, Karsonya Wise

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The Philadelphia negro : a social study / W.E.B. Du Bois ; series editor, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ; introduction by Lawrence Bobo. by Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963

Subjects: “…African Americans Pennsylvania Philadelphia Social life and customs 19th century.…”
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The nicest kids in town : American bandstand, rock 'n' roll, and the struggle for civil rights in 1950s Philadelphia / Matthew F. Delmont. by Delmont, Matthew F.

Subjects: “…African Americans Civil rights Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 20th century.…”
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But one race : the life of Robert Purvis / Margaret Hope Bacon. by Bacon, Margaret Hope

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Building the beloved community : Philadelphia's interracial civil rights organizations and race relations, 1930-1970 / Stanley Keith Arnold. by Arnold, Stanley Keith

Subjects: “…Civil rights movements Pennsylvania Philadelphia History 20th century.…”
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Breaching Jericho's walls : a twentieth-century African American life / Allen B. Ballard. by Ballard, Allen B.

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