• 3 College Library
• 3 Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
• 3 MERIT Library
• 3 Memorial Library
• 1 Information School Library
• 1 Special Collections (Memorial Library)

• 13 Books

• 7 History
• 6 African American families
• 3 Depressions
• 3 Families
• 3 Family life
• 2 Childhood and youth
• 2 Civil rights movements
• 2 Racism
• 2 Shabazz, Betty
• 2 Stepfamilies
• 1 African American celebrities
• 1 African Americans in the newspaper industry
• 1 Black or African American
• 1 Family
• 1 Family secrets
• 1 Fathers and sons
• 1 Literature, Modern
• 1 Mothers and daughters
• 1 Poor
• 1 Poverty
• 1 Race discrimination
• 1 Race relations
• 1 Reminiscing in old age
• 1 Runaway children

• 4 Morrison, Toni
• 2 Curtis, Christopher Paul
• 2 Elster, Jean Alicia
• 2 Shabazz, Ilyasah
• 2 Watson, Renée
• 1 Amir, Aharon, 1923-2008
• 1 Gray, Anissa
• 1 Lowe & Brydone
• 1 Oates, Joyce Carol, 1938-
• 1 Randall, Alice, 1959-
• 1 Victor Gollancz Ltd.

• 12 English
• 1 Hebrew

• 5 Detroit
• 4 Detroit (Mich.)
• 3 United States
• 1 Black Bottom (Detroit, Mich.)
• 1 Clarksville
• 1 Clarksville (Tenn.)
• 1 Detroit (Mich)
• 1 Flint
• 1 Flint (Mich.)
• 1 Gary
• 1 Gary (Ind.)
• 1 Indiana
• 1 Tennessee

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