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Daddy Was a Number Runner

Daddy Was a Number Runner more books like this

by Louise Meriwether

The prospects for a 12-year-old girl growing up in Harlem in the 1930s are somewhat limited. As Francie Coffin learns, you either sell your body, wash other people's clothes, run poker games or have a baby every year. This is the story of her triumph of integrity in the world of ghetto life.

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Fragments of the Ark

Fragments of the Ark more books like this

by Louise Meriwether

In the tradition of Alex Haley's Roots, Fragments of the Ark tells the heroic story of Peter Mango, a South Carolina slave whose daring Civil War escape from Confederate Charleston to the Union Navy brings him face-to-face with his freedom--and still closer to his own soul. From the author of Daddy Was a Number Runner. "Incredibly moving".--Maya ...

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Shadow Dancing

Shadow Dancing more books like this

by Louise Meriwether

Glenda is a journalist at the top of her profession. When she falls in love with a charismatic theatre director who is also a nightmare-haunted Vietnam vet, Glenda must draw on all her strengths if the relationship is to survive.

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The Heart Man: Dr. Daniel Hale Williams more books like this

by Louise Meriwether

A brief biography of the black surgeon who performed the first successful heart operation in 1893.

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The Freedom Ship of Robert Smalls more books like this

by Louise Meriwether

A brief biography of the slave who escaped to freedom with his family and other runaway slaves on a captured Confederate gunboat.

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Don't Ride the Bus on Monday: The Rosa Parks Story more books like this

by Louise Meriwether

A brief biography of the Alabama black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on the bus marked the beginning of the civil rights movement.

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Francie's Harlem

by Louise Meriwether

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