The Liberty Boys and "Black Bess"

The Liberty Boys and
Author: Harry Moore
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2018-05-22
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1479419826

This is the lead novel from "The Liberty Boys of '76," #511, a Nickel Weekly publication containing tales of the American Revolution. It was originally published on October 14, 1910.

The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess

The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess
Author: Ellen Noonan
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2012
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0807837164

Examines the opera Porgy and Bess's long history of invention and reinvention as a barometer of 20th-century American expectations about race, culture and the struggle for equality.

Step it Down

Step it Down
Author: Bessie Jones
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1987
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780820309606

Gathers traditional baby games, clapping plays, jumps and skips, singing plays, ring plays, dances, outdoor games, songs, and stories

Queen Bess

Queen Bess
Author: Doris L. Rich
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2015-03-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1588345122

Here is the brief but intense life of Bessie Coleman, America's first African American woman aviator. Born in 1892 in Atlanta, Texas, she became known as “Queen Bess,” a barnstormer and flying-circus performer who defied the strictures of race, sex, and society in pursuit of a dream.