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Product Description: In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who's Jim Hines?, follows another member of the Ford family coming of age in Depression-era Detroit. In the hot summer of 1937, twelve-year-old Patsy takes care of her three younger sisters and helps her mother put up fresh fruits and vegetables in the family's summer kitchen, adjacent to the wood yard that her father, Douglas Ford, owns...read more

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9780814336069 | Wayne State Univ Pr, September 13, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: In The Colored Car, Jean Alicia Elster, author of the award-winning Who's Jim Hines?

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Product Description: t's been said that those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it. It is that conviction that makes this youthful Christian history of black America a vital resource for educators, parents, and students alike. From the first African slaves to the first black professional athletes, from the revival at Azusa Street to the civil rights movement, from the who's who of historically black denominational leaders to the who's who of popular African American culture, this chronological survey highlights with rich illustrations, famous quotes, and Phat Facts the names and events that forged African American experience in the twenty-first century...read more
By Jean Alicia Elster (editor), Marvin A. McMickle and Efrem Smith (foreword by)

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9780817015084 | Judson Pr, December 10, 2008, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: t's been said that those who don't learn from history are destined to repeat it.

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Product Description: Who's Jim Hines? is a story based on real events about Douglas Ford Jr., a twelve-year-old African American boy growing up in Detroit in the 1930s. Doug's father owns the Douglas Ford Wood Company, and Doug usually helps his dad around the scrap wood yard located in the side lot next to their house...read more

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9780814334027 | Wayne State Univ Pr, August 31, 2008, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Who's Jim Hines?

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Product Description: Pastor and founder of the Benjamin E. Mays Male Academy, Rev. Dr. James C. Perkins knows what a critical time in life the early tween and teen years are for African American boys. So he has compiled a game plan for black males ages 12 15 that supplies twelve essential lessons to sustain them in their growth from young boys to men of integrity and godly character...read more

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9780817015251 | Judson Pr, March 1, 2008, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Pastor and founder of the Benjamin E.

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