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Black Life & Civil Rights

Community life, schools, segregation, activism, churches, and oral histories, documented across the collections of twelve library systems and the State Archives of North Carolina.

837 works · grouped from 874 catalog subject headings

Places represented  Chapel Hill · North Carolina · Orange County · Hillsborough

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    A. A. Zollicoffer, Jr. (1)

    Abandoned buildings (2)

    Abandoned children (1 works · 2 headings)

    Abduction (1)

    Abercrombie, James (1)

    Abilene (Tex.) (1)

    Ability (4 works · 3 headings)
    Abolitionists (4 works · 3 headings)
    Abortion (3 works · 2 headings)
    Abstracts (2 works · 3 headings)

    Abuse -- Fiction (1)

    Abused children -- Services for -- North Carolina (1)

    Abused wives (1 works · 2 headings)
    Abused women (2 works · 2 headings)
    Academic achievement (8 works · 6 headings)

    Academic Administration Internship Program (1)

    Academic and Professional Research Administration (3)

    Academic art, French -- 19th century -- Exhibitions (1)

    Academic costumes (1)

    Academic exercises -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough (1)

    Academic freedom (30 works · 6 headings)
    Academic librarians (2 works · 3 headings)
    Academic libraries (132 works · 37 headings)

    All 132 works under “Academic libraries” →

    Academic libraries (60)

    Academic libraries -- Acquisitions (3)

    Academic libraries -- Acquisitions -- North Carolina (2)

    Academic libraries -- Administration (1)

    Academic libraries -- Buildings (1)

    Academic libraries -- Charitable contributions -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)

    Academic libraries -- Departmental libraries -- North Carolina (1)

    Academic libraries -- Employees (3)

    Academic libraries -- Finance (2)

    Academic libraries -- Graduate work (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina (18)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Automation (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (16)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Book lists (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Designs and plans (2)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Finance (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Handbooks, manuals, etc (3)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History (5)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History -- 19th century (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Periodicals (64)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Photographs (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Planning (5)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Chapell Hill -- Periodicals (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Departments (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Employees (3)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Employees -- Photographs (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Handbooks, manuals, etc (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- History (1)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Personnel management (2)

    Academic libraries -- North Carolina -- Statistics (1)

    Academic libraries -- Personnel management (2)

    Academic libraries -- Planning (2)

    Academic libraries -- Reference services (2)

    Academic libraries -- Reference services -- North Carolina (2)

    Academic libraries -- Relations with faculty and curriculum (1)

    Academic libraries -- United States -- Buildings (1)

    Academic libraries -- United States -- History -- 20th century (1)

    Academic Medical Centers (3)

    Academic rites and ceremonies (1 works · 2 headings)
    Academic-industrial collaboration (2 works · 2 headings)
    Acadian flycatcher (1 works · 2 headings)

    Access to libraries (1)

    Accidents (5 works · 6 headings)

    Acconeechy Indians (13)

    Account books (9 works · 7 headings)
    Accounting (8 works · 4 headings)

    Accreditation (2)

    Accreditation (Education) (9 works · 2 headings)

    Acetylene (1)

    Achievement motivation (2)

    Aconichi Indians (13)

    Acting (1)

    Actions and defenses (3)

    Activities of Daily Living (1)

    Actors (3 works · 2 headings)

    Adam, _____ (1)

    Adams, Catherine (1)

    Adams, Francis (1)

    Adams, John (2)

    Adams, John Quincy (1)

    Adams, Samuel (1)

    Adams, William (1)

    Adie and Hogg (1)

    Adie, _____ (1)

    Adkins, Hasil (2)

    Administration (57)

    Administration of estates (25 works · 2 headings)

    Administrative Acts (1)

    Administrative agencies (4 works · 5 headings)

    Administrative and political divisions (1)

    Administrative Procedure (1)

    Administrative regulations (3)

    Administrators -- Attitudes (1)

    Admiralty (6)

    Admiralty, ships and sailors, intelligence, Spanish, governor (1)

    Adolescence (3 works · 3 headings)

    Adolescent (1)

    Adolescent psychology (1 works · 2 headings)

    Adolescentes noires américaines -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse (1)

    Adult children -- Fiction (1)

    Adult children of aging parents (1)

    Adult day care centers (2 works · 2 headings)
    Adult education (5 works · 3 headings)

    Adult education teachers -- Training of (1)

    Adult learning (4 works · 3 headings)

    Adult Literacy Initiative (1)

    Adultery (4 works · 3 headings)

    Adults (7)

    Advance (Ship) (1)

    Advertisements (2)

    Advertising (5)

    Advertisments (1)

    Advisory boards (1)

    Advisory boards in higher education (2 works · 2 headings)

    Aerial photography (1)

    Aerial Reconnaissance (1)

    Aerial views (4)

    Aerobic dancing (1)

    Aeronautics (1)

    Affirmative action programs (27 works · 7 headings)
    Affirmative action programs in education (7 works · 6 headings)

    Afghan War, 2001- -- Journalists (1)

    Africa (1)

    African American authors (3 works · 3 headings)
    African American Baptists (4 works · 5 headings)

    African American basketball coaches -- North Carolina (1)

    African American basketball players (3 works · 3 headings)

    African American boxers (1)

    African American business enterprises (4 works · 8 headings)
    African American businesspeople (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American children (8 works · 3 headings)
    African American churches (7 works · 4 headings)
    African American civic leaders (2 works · 2 headings)

    African American civil rights lawyers -- Biography (1)

    African American civil rights workers (6 works · 5 headings)

    African American cooking (1)

    African American cooks -- North Carolina (2)

    African American detectives (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American educators (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American families (7 works · 6 headings)

    African American farmers (9)

    African American fathers (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American feminists (1 works · 2 headings)

    African American Gay Composers -- Biography (1)

    African American gay men (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American girls (1 works · 3 headings)

    African American graduate students (1)

    African American Greek letter societies (2 works · 2 headings)
    African American intellectuals (1 works · 2 headings)

    African American journalists (1)

    African American juvenile delinquents (1 works · 2 headings)

    African American law students -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (2)

    African American lawyers (4 works · 4 headings)
    African American leadership (3 works · 4 headings)
    African American legislators (2 works · 2 headings)

    African American Legislators. -- North Carolina (1)

    African American mayors (2 works · 3 headings)
    African American men (4 works · 5 headings)
    African American mothers (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American musicians (3 works · 3 headings)
    African American neighborhoods (8 works · 9 headings)
    African American poets (7 works · 6 headings)

    African American Police -- Fiction (2)

    African American political activists -- Interviews (1)

    African American politicians (3 works · 4 headings)

    African American scholars (2)

    African American schools (8 works · 5 headings)
    African American student movements (7 works · 3 headings)
    African American students (33 works · 13 headings)
    African American Sunday schools (2 works · 2 headings)
    African American teachers (9 works · 4 headings)
    African American teenage girls (2 works · 2 headings)
    African American teenagers (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American women (95 works · 7 headings)
    African American women athletes (1 works · 2 headings)

    African American women authors (1)

    African American women clergy (3 works · 3 headings)
    African American women cooks (1 works · 2 headings)

    African American women entertainers (1)

    African American women in literature (1)

    African American women journalists (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American women lawyers (2 works · 2 headings)

    African American women poets -- Biography (1)

    African American women political activists (1 works · 2 headings)
    African American Women Singers (1 works · 2 headings)

    African American women social reformers -- Biography (1)

    African American youth (3 works · 4 headings)
    African Americans (375 works · 171 headings)

    All 375 works under “African Americans” →

    African Americans (169)

    African Americans -- Alabama (1)

    African Americans -- Alabama -- Social conditions (1)

    African Americans -- Attitudes (5)

    African Americans -- Bibliography (3)

    African Americans -- Biography (5)

    African Americans -- Biography -- Juvenile Literature (2)

    African Americans -- Civil rights (31)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century -- Photographs (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina (11)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Carrboro (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (10)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Periodicals (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Photographs (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Greensboro (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- History (2)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Monroe (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Photographs (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- North Carolina -- Weldon (1)

    African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States (2)

    African Americans -- Crimes against -- Fiction (1)

    African Americans -- Diaries (1)

    African Americans -- Economic conditions (1)

    African Americans -- Education (132)

    African Americans -- Education -- History (109)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina (71)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Durham -- History (1)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- History (1)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- History (1)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Orange County (3)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- History (2)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Raleigh -- History (1)

    African Americans -- Education -- North Carolina -- Wake County -- History (1)

    African Americans -- Education -- Southern States (11)

    African Americans -- Education (Elementary) (10)

    African Americans -- Education (Higher) (15)

    African Americans -- Education (Higher) -- North Carolina (3)

    African Americans -- Education (Secondary) (22)

    African Americans -- Employment (4)

    African Americans -- Employment -- North Carolina -- Handbooks, manuals, etc (2)

    African Americans -- Employment -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- Fiction (4)

    African Americans -- Film catalogs (1)

    African Americans -- Florida (1)

    African Americans -- Folklore (1)

    African Americans -- Genealogy (1)

    African Americans -- Health and hygiene -- History -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- History (10)

    African Americans -- History -- 20th century -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Civil rights (1)

    African Americans -- Juvenile fiction (2)

    African Americans -- Land tenure (1)

    African Americans -- Land tenure -- Alabama -- Hale County (1)

    African Americans -- Languages (1)

    African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc (1)

    African Americans -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- North Carolina (1)

    African Americans -- Louisiana (1)

    African Americans -- Marriage (1)

    African Americans -- Marriage -- North Carolina -- Orange County (1)

    African Americans -- Medical care -- History -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- Medical care -- North Carolina -- Photographs (1)

    African Americans -- Michigan (1)

    African Americans -- Migrations -- History -- 19th century (1)

    African Americans -- Mississippi (1)

    African Americans -- Music (4)

    African Americans -- Music -- Discography (1)

    African Americans -- Music -- History and criticism (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina (11)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Alamance County -- History (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Biography (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Brunswick County -- History (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Carrboro (3)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Carrboro -- History (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Carrboro -- History -- Pictorial works (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (18)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Attitudes (5)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Biography (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Economic conditions (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History (5)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History -- 20th century -- Pictorial works (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Interviews (11)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Newspapers (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Social conditions (3)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Social conditions -- 19th century (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Social conditions -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Social life and customs -- 20th century (5)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Chatham County (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Drama (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Newspapers (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham -- Pictorial works (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- Biography (5)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Durham County -- History (6)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Fiction (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Film catalogs (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Genealogy (4)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Genealogy -- Sources (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- History (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Hillsborough -- Social life and customs (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- History (4)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- History -- 19th century (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century (5)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- History -- Archival resources -- Directories (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- History -- Library resources -- Directories (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- History -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Music (4)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Music -- Discography (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Newspapers (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Biography (5)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Genealogy (4)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Genealogy -- Index (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- History (10)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- History -- 19th century (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Interviews (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Music (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Periodicals (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Registers (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Social conditions (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- Social life and customs (3)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Periodicals (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Photographs (4)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Pictorial works (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Poetry (3)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Princeville (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Raleigh -- Newspapers (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Religion (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Social conditions (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Social life and customs (2)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Wake County. (1)

    African Americans -- North Carolina -- Wilmington (1)

    African Americans -- Photographs (1)

    African Americans -- Poetry (1)

    African Americans -- Political activity -- North Carolina -- Orange County (1)

    African Americans -- Politics and government (1)

    African Americans -- Public Schools -- North Carolina -- Orange County -- History (2)

    African Americans -- Race identity (1)

    African Americans -- Religion (7)

    African Americans -- Segregation (11)

    African Americans -- Segregation -- North Carolina (2)

    African Americans -- Segregation -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (4)

    African Americans -- Segregation -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- 20th century (3)

    African Americans -- Segregation -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History (1)

    African Americans -- Segregation -- North Carolina -- History -- 20th century (1)

    African Americans -- Segregation -- Southern States (2)

    African Americans -- Social conditions (11)

    African Americans -- Social conditions -- 1975- (1)

    African Americans -- Social life and customs (13)

    African Americans -- Societies, etc (1)

    African Americans -- South Carolina -- Horry County (1)

    African Americans -- South Carolina -- Newspapers (1)

    African Americans -- Southern States (1)

    African Americans -- Southern States -- Biography (3)

    African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century (1)

    African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- Archival resources -- Directories (1)

    African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- Library resources -- Directories (1)

    African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- Manuscripts -- Catalogs (1)

    African Americans -- Southern States -- History -- Sources -- Bibliography -- Catalogs (1)

    African Americans -- Southern States -- Religion (1)

    African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century (2)

    African Americans -- Study and teaching (1)

    African Americans -- Study and teaching -- North Carolina (1)

    African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) (1)

    African Americans -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- History -- Sources (1)

    African Americans -- Suffrage (3)

    African Americans -- Texas (1)

    African Americans and mass media -- United States (1)

    African Americans in Business (1 works · 5 headings)

    African Americans in mass media (1)

    African Americans in the performing arts (1)

    African Methodist-Episcopal Zion Publishing Co. (Charlotte) (1)

    African students (1 works · 2 headings)

    African-American Studies (2)

    Afro-Americans (1 works · 2 headings)

    After-school programs (1)

    Afternoon teas (1)

    Agassiz, Louis (1)

    Age distribution (Demography) -- North Carolina (6)

    Agents (4)

    Aging (5 works · 5 headings)
    Aging parents (1 works · 2 headings)

    Agricultural chemistry (1)

    Agricultural conservation (1 works · 2 headings)
    Agricultural exhibitions (2 works · 2 headings)
    Agricultural experiment stations (2 works · 2 headings)
    Agricultural extension work (16 works · 3 headings)
    Agricultural laborers (3 works · 3 headings)

    Agricultural prices -- Southern States (1)

    Agriculturally marginal lands (1)

    Agriculture (45 works · 26 headings)

    Agriculture in literature (1)

    Agriculture, Cooperative (3 works · 2 headings)

    AIAW National Soccer Tournament (1981 : Chapel Hill, N.C.) (1)

    Aid to families with dependent children programs (3 works · 3 headings)

    Aide de l'État à l'éducation -- Caroline du Nord (1)

    Aide de l'État à l'éducation -- Caroline du Nord (1)

    AIDS (Disease) (1 works · 3 headings)

    Aiken, Gene (1)

    Air (5 works · 6 headings)

    Air conditioning (1)

    Air pilots (1)

    Air pilots, Military (3 works · 5 headings)
    Air quality (5 works · 6 headings)
    Aircraft carriers (1 works · 2 headings)

    Airlie (N.C.) -- Photographs (1)

    Airplanes (5 works · 2 headings)

    Airplanes, Military (1)

    Airports (13 works · 3 headings)

    Al Jazeera (Television network) (1)

    Alabama (15 works · 6 headings)

    Alamance (2)

    Alamance (N.C.) (1)

    Alamance Battleground State Historic Site (1)

    Alamance Battleground State Historic Site (N.C.) (1)

    Alamance Creek (2)

    Alamance Creek, Battle of, N.C., 1771 (5 works · 3 headings)

    Alamance, Battle of, 1771 (1)

    Alaska (1)

    Albemarle (Confederate ironclad) (2)

    Albemarle (N.C.) (1)

    Albemarle County (1)

    Albemarle County (N.C.) -- Genealogy -- Sources (1)

    Albemarle District Fair (1)

    Albemarle Section (1)

    Albemarle Sound (N.C.) (2)

    Alchemist (Carrboro, N.C.) (1)

    Alcohol Drinking (1 works · 2 headings)
    Alcoholic beverages (3 works · 3 headings)

    Alcoholic Intoxication (1)

    Alcoholics (2 works · 3 headings)

    Alcoholism (49)

    Alderman, Jacob Oliver (1)

    Alexander County (N.C.) (7 works · 3 headings)

    Alexander Dejean, 1841-1882 (1)

    Alexander Dixon House (Hillsborough, N.C.) (2 works · 2 headings)

    Alexandria (Va.) (1)

    Alford, Larry P (1)

    Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill (Firm) (15 works · 2 headings)

    Alice Elizabeth Graham (1)

    Alice Freeland (1)

    Aliens (1)

    Alleghany County (N.C.) (5 works · 3 headings)

    Alleghany County Courthouse (1)

    Allegiance (9)

    Allen House (Burlington, N.C.) (1)

    Allen, James I. (1)

    Allen, John (2)

    Allen, John, Sr. (1)

    Allen, Nancy Emily (1)

    Allen, Rachel Stout (2)

    Allen, William (2)

    Allenton (Firm) (1)

    Allergy and Immunology -- History (1)

    Alleys (1)

    Alliance for Historic Hillsborough (N.C.) -- Periodicals (1)

    Allied Health Occupations -- Education (1)

    Allied health personnel (2 works · 3 headings)

    Allison, David (1)

    Allotment of land (1)

    Allsopp, George (1)

    Alma mater songs (1)

    Almanacs (1)

    Almanacs, American (1 works · 2 headings)
    Almshouses (4 works · 2 headings)

    Alpha Chi Sigma (2)

    Alpha Epsilon Delta (1)

    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (1)

    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Theta Pi Chapter (Chapel Hill, N.C.) (1)

    Alphus E. Barbee (1)

    Alston, Ben C. (1)

    Alston, Janie -- Fiction (1)

    Altars (1)

    Alternative rock music (492 works · 7 headings)
    Alternative rock musicians (4 works · 3 headings)

    Altertum (1)

    Alum Cave Trail (1)

    Alumni and alumnae (179)

    Alvarez, Julia (1)

    Alves, Gavin -- Correspondence (1)

    Alvord, H. E. (1)

    Amanda Jane Hicks (1)

    Amanda Jane Hicks Winston (1)

    Amateur sleuths -- Fiction (1)

    Ambassadors (2)

    Ambrotype (1)

    Ambulance service -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (1)

    Ambulatory medical care -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill (10)

    Amelia Barbee Sorrell (1)

    America (1 works · 4 headings)

    American aborigines (11)

    American Airlines (1)

    American authors -- Biography (1)

    American Civil Liberties Union (1)

    American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina (1)

    American Civil War (1861-1865) (1)

    American Civil War (United States : 1861-1865) (45)

    American dog tick (1 works · 2 headings)

    American Drama -- North Carolina -- Chapel Hill -- Periodicals (1)

    American essays (3 works · 5 headings)

    American Federation of Teachers (1)

    American fiction (3 works · 3 headings)

    American history (1)

    American Indians (45)

    American literature (37 works · 26 headings)

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    American literature (26)

    American literature -- 20th century (2)

    American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism (1)

    American literature -- 20th century -- Periodicals (1)

    American literature -- 21st century (2)

    American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals (1)

    American literature -- 21st century -- Periodicals (1)

    American literature -- African American authors (4)

    American literature -- African American authors -- 19th century (1)

    American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism (2)

    American literature -- African American authors -- North Carolina -- Periodicals (1)

    American literature -- African American authors -- Study and teaching (1)

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