Cora Wilson Stewart and Kentucky's moonlight schools

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Jacqueline M. Moore

"Historians of the African American experience after Reconstruction have tended to imply that the black elite served only their own interests, that their exclusive control of black institutions precluded efforts to improve the status of African Americans in general. In Leading the Race, Jacqueline M. Moore reevaluates the role of this black elite by examining how their self-interest interacted with the needs of the black community in Washington, D.C., the center of black society at the turn of the century."--BOOK JACKET.

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[compiled by] Linda Schmittroth

A collection of annotated documents relating to the American Revolution, including speeches, autobiographical text, and proclamations.

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James R. Hines

The "Historical dictionary of figure skating" relates the history of the sport through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, appendixes, and over 800 cross-referenced dictionary entries on hundreds of skaters, past and present, but also on skating countries, governing bodies, skating disciplines, technical elements, skating styles, and many other subjects.

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Clement Eaton

A biography of Jefferson Davis, who was a West Point graduate, soldier in the Black Hawk Wars, plantation master and self-made aristocrat, Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce, and the President of the Confederate States of America.