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Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery
by Leon F Litwack  Publisher Comments Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award Based on hitherto unexamined sources: interviews with ex-slaves, diaries and accounts by former slaveholders, this " rich and admirably written book" (Eugene Genovese, "The New...
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African American Historic Places
by National Register Of Historic Places Publisher Comments Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American Historic Places includes over 800 places in 42 states and two U.S. territories that have...
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Legacy: Treasures of Black History
by Thomas C Battle Publisher Comments ," . . a compilation of documents, photographs, images and artifacts revealing a lush cultural heritage."...
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Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War
by James E. Westheider Publisher Comments "A very powerful account of a significant aspect of recent American military history." --Journal of Military History "Westheider has researched very thoroughly-an effort including extensive interviews with Vietnam veterans-and he possesses a rare gift...
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Fighting for Us: Maulana Karenga, the Us Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism
by Scot Brown Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "A detailed and sober account . . . Fighting for US is of enormous and permanent value." —Publishers Weekly "Readers will find Brown's study a well-researched document on the key...
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Black West : Documentary and Pictoral History of the African American Role in the Westward Expansion of the United States (05 Edition)
by William Katz Publisher Comments This entirely new edition of a famous classic has glorious new photographs—many never before seen—as well as a revised and expanded text that deepens our understanding of the vital role played by African American men and women on our early...
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The Negro Trail Blazers of California
by Delilah L. Beasley Publisher Comments Yvonne Brathwaite Burke, the first African-American congresswoman from California, says that Beasley "provides modern-day students and researchers with a detailed encyclopedia of knowledge. Every Californian can benefit from reading this historical work."...
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On the Altar of Freedom
by James H. Gooding Publisher Comments "Our correspondent, 'J.H.G., ' is a member of Co. C., of the 54th Massachusetts regiment. He is a colored man belonging to this city, and his letters are printed by us, verbatim et literatim, as we receive them. He is a truthful and intelligent...
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Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism
by Dexter B. Gordon Publisher Comments Black Identity: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Nineteenth-Century Black Nationalism explores the problem of racial alienation and the importance of rhetoric in the formation of black identity in the United States. Faced with alienation and disenfranchisement as...
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No Man's Yoke on My Shoulders: Personal Accounts of Slavery in Florida (Real Voices, Real History)
by Horace Randall Williams Publisher Comments The 13th volume in the Real Voices, Real History series presents firsthand accounts of what life under slavery was like in Florida....
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Slave's Narrative (85 Edition)
by Charles T. Davis Publisher Comments These autobiographies of Afro-American ex-slaves comprise the largest body of literature produced by slaves in human history. The book consists of three sections: selected reviews of slave narratives, dating from 1750 to 1861; essays examining how such...
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The Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words
by Milton Meltzer Publisher Comments ‘ Meltzer has produced and updated a single volume a condensation of his three-volume In Their Own Words that covers three and a half centuries of black life in the United States, consisting of source materials: letters, speeches, newspaper articles,...
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Radio and the Struggle for Civil Rights in the South
by Brian Ward Publisher Comments This compelling book offers important new insights into the connections among radio, race relations, and the civil rights and black power movements in the South from the 1920s to the mid-1970s. For the mass of African Americans—and many whites...
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My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression
by Eddie Stimpson Publisher Comments "Stimpson provides an opportunity to view rural life in Texas during the Depression and its aftermath.... (His) almost Biblical cadence further enriches the reading, as does the imagery used to call up emotional response to the good times and the bad...
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From Slavery to Freetown: Black Loyalists After the American Revolution
by Mary Louise Clifford Publisher Comments During the American Revolution over 3,000 persons of African descent were promised freedom by the British if they would desert their American rebel masters and serve the loyalist cause. Those who responded to this promise found refuge in New York. In...
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Trouble They Seen : the Story of Reconstruction of the Words of African Americans (76 Edition)
by Dorothy Sterling Publisher Comments Most histories of Reconstruction deal primarily with political issues and the larger conflicts between Democrats and Republicans, notherners and southerners. The Trouble They Seen departs from this approach to examine in their own words the lives of...
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Abiding Courage: African American Migrant Women and the East Bay Community
by Gr Lemke Santangelo Publisher Comments Between 1940 and 1945, thousands of African Americans migrated from the South to the East Bay Area of northern California in search of the social and economic mobility that was associated with the region's expanding defense industry and its reputation...
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Million Man March/Day of Absence: A Commemorative Anthology: Speeches, Commentary, Photography, Poetry, Illustrations, Documents
by Haki R Madhubuti Publisher Comments A reflective account of one of the most transforming events of the twentieth century -- the October 16, 1995 "Holy Day of Atonement and Reconciliation" and March on Washington. This anthology incorporates the ideas, experiences and visions of the Million...
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Proud Shoes : the Story of an American Family (99 Edition)
by Pauli Murray Publisher Comments Originally published in 1956, Pauli Murray tells the story of her grandparents, delving into the realities of slavery, survival, and miscegenation in the pre-Civil War/Reconstruction era in the South. "A significant contribution to our understanding of...
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Lost Trails of the Cimarron
by Harry E. Chrisman Publisher Comments Lost Trails of the Cimarron is Harry Chrisman's folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country -- southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of...
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