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First Generation Club and McNair Scholars Program presents
UNT Dallas Library Sessions with librarian Robert Taylor
1. How to develop a research strategy - 1/27/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
2. How to Google like a scholar - 2/3/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
3. What's new at the library - 2/10/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
Zoom ID (for each session): 83148094734
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Image one: Book titled To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and Economic Justice (2018) - synopsis: Explores Martin Luther King, Jr.'s profound commitment to the poor and working class and his call for "nonviolent resistance" to all forms of oppression, including the economic injustice that "takes necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes." - available in the in the UNT Dallas Library collection
Image two: Book titled Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (2010) - synopsis: In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. isolated himself from the demands of the Civil Rights Movement, rented a house in Jamaica with no telephone, and labored over his final manuscript. In this prophetic work, which as been unavailable for more than ten years, he lays out his thoughts, plans, and dreams for America's future, including the need for better jobs, higher wages, decent housing, and quality education. - available in the UNT Dallas Library collection
Image one: Book titled Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism (2006) - synopsis: Exposes the history and persistence of "sundown towns," so-named for the signs often found at their corporate limits warning African-Americans and other minorities not to be found in the town after dusk. This book historically situates the rise of the sundown town movement in the years following the Civil War: describes the mechanism of violence, threats, law, and policy that were used to force minorities out of Northern and Western towns in to the big cities; and charts the continued existence of such communities. - available in the UNT Dallas Library collection
Image two: Book titled Thurgood Marshall: American Revolutionary (1998) - synopsis: Presents a biography of the first African-American appointed to the Supreme Court, from his crusade against segregation to his friendships with other famous Black figures. - available in the UNT Dallas Library collection
Image one: Book titled Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-63 (1988) - synopsis: Taylor Branch provides an unsurpassed portrait of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s rise to greatness and illuminates the stunning courage and private conflict, the deals, maneuvers, betrayals, and rivalries that determined history behind closed doors, at boycotts and sit-ins, on bloody freedom rides, and through siege and murder. - available in the UNT Dallas Library Collection
Image two: Book titled Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-65 (1999) - synopsis: In the second volume of his three-part history, beginning with Parting the Waters, Taylor Branch portrays the Civil Rights Movement at its zenith, recounting the climatic struggles as they commanded the national stage. - available in the UNT Dallas Library collection
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Image two: Book titled The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. (2001) - synopsis: An autobiography of the Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., compiled and edited from articles, essays, speeches, sermons, letters, and other sources, examining his private and public life and describing his involvement in many important events in the Civil Rights Movement. - available in the UNT Dallas Library collection
Image three: Book titled Martin and Malcolm and America: A Dream or a Nightmare? (2012) - synopsis: While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as essentially a dream as yet unfulfilled, Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare. James Cone cuts through superficial assessments of King and Malcolm as polar opposites to reveal two men whose visions are complementary and moving toward convergence. - available in the UNT Dallas Library collection
Interlibrary Loan has arrived with Tipasa!
UNT Dallas students, faculty, and staff may now place and monitor requests for articles, book chapters, and books owned by other libraries throughout the country.
Access your Tipasa portal and start placing requests here: https://untdallas.account.worldcat.org/account/requests
Learn more about Tipasa and how it works with the Tipasa guide: https://library.untdallas.edu/interlibraryloan
Scopus is a comprehensive abstract and citation database that allows users to find relevant and trusted research, identify experts, and access reliable data, metrics, and analytical tools for confident research strategy decisions. Trial runs through January 24, 2022.
Scopus database link: https://library.untdallas.edu/scopus Learn more about this database and how to use it with this libguide: https://elsevier.libguides.com/Scopus/home
Please explore this resource and share your thoughts! - https://untdallas.libwizard.com/f/scopus
