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Freedom North: Black Freedom Struggles Outside the South, 1940-1980
by Jeanne F. Theoharis  Publisher Comments This book brings together new scholarship on black social movements outside the South to rethink the civil rights narrative and the place of race in recent history. Each chapter focuses on a different location and movement outside the South, revealing...
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Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940-1970
by John A. Kirk Publisher Comments One of the most significant events in the struggle for black civil rights in America was the integration in 1957 of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. In 1954, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that segregation was...
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Slavery and Freedom in the Rural North
by Graham Russell Hodges Publisher Comments This unique social history, focusing on a single community in eastern New jersey, addresses many long-held assumptions about slavery and emancipation outside the plantation South....
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African American Childhoods: Historical Perspectives from Slavery to Civil Rights
by Wilma King Publisher Comments In African American Childhoods, historian Wilma King presents a selection of her essays, both unpublished and published, which together provide a much-needed survey of more than three centuries of African American children's experiences. Organized...
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Say It Plain : a Century of Great African American Speeches (07 Edition)
by Stephen Drury Smith Publisher Comments An affordable text-only edition of a century of public speeches by the nation's greatest African American orators. <BR>""I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we as a people will get to the...
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Harlem Renaissance
by Nathan Irvi Huggins Publisher Comments A finalist for the 1972 National Book Award, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "brilliant" and "provocative," Nathan Huggins' Harlem Renaissance was a milestone in the study of African-American life and culture. Now this classic history is...
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Black Rebellion: Five Slave Revolts
by Thomas Wentworth Higginson Publisher Comments } Black Rebellion, a fascinating account of five slave insurrections, among them the story of the Maroons, escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America who successfully resisted larger British armies while living an independent existence for...
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Waiting Til the Midnight Hour (07 Edition)
by Joseph Publisher Comments “Once in a while a book comes along that projects the spirit of an era; this is one of them . . . Vibrant and expressive . . . A well-researched and well-written work.” —The Philadelphia Inquirer With the rallying cry of “...
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Akron, Ohio (Black America)
by Abel A. Bartley Publisher Comments While tire magnates like Harvey Firestone and John Seiberling were propelling Akron's rubber industry to the top, its African-American citizens were busy building and fortifying the "Rubber Capital of the World," supplying a tenacious workforce and...
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Too Heavy a Load: Black Women in Defense of Themselves, 1894-1994
by Deborah Gray White Publisher Comments The author pays tribute to a century of black women defending themselves against racism and gender prejudice while trying to exist as individuals in an ever-changing society....
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Fighting for Freedom: Slave Rebellions (Slavery in the Americas)
by Robin Santos Doak Publisher Comments In order to fully understand American history, it is essential to know that for nearly two centuries, Americans bought imported Africans and kept them and their descendants in bondage in the 13 colonies and the United States. Slavery lasted so long and...
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Racial Matters: The FBI's Secret File on Black America, 1960-1972
by Kenneth Oreilly Publisher Comments From Kennedy to Nixon, the FBI unwillingly found itself at the center of the struggle for racial equality and justice. Kenneth O'Reilly tells the shocking story of how political loyalties, priorities, and prejudices turned a government agency into an...
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Enter the New Negroes: Images of Race in American Culture
by Martha Jane Nadell Publisher Comments visual aspect to African-American culture as it evokes the passion of a community determined to shape its own identity and image....
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The Golden Age of Black Nationalism, 1850-1925
by Wilson Jeremiah Moses Publisher Comments The "golden age" of black nationalism began in response to the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and extended to the time of Marcus Garvey's imprisonment in 1925. During these seventy-five years, an upsurge of back-to-Africa schemes stimulated a...
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Encyclopedia of the Underground Railroad
by J. Blaine Hudson Publisher Comments This encyclopedia focuses on the people, ideas, events and places associated with the interrelated histories of fugitive slaves, the African American struggle for equality and theAmerican antislavery movement. Information is drawn from primary sources...
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Papers of Martin Luther King JR Volume 5 THR
by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments The Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. has become the definitive record of the most significant correspondence, sermons, speeches, published writings, and unpublished manuscripts of one of America's best-known advocates for peace and justice. Threshold of...
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Black Masters : a Free Family of Color in the Old South (84 Edition)
by Michael P. Johnson Publisher Comments In 1860, when four million Afro-Americans were enslaved, a quarter-million others, including William Ellison, were 'free people of color.' But Ellison was remarkable. Born a slave, his experience spans the history of the South from George Washington and...
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Kentucky Slave Narratives
by Applewood Books Publisher Comments The view that slavery could best be described by those who had themselves experienced it personally has found expression in several thousand commentaries, autobiographies, narratives, and interviews with those who "endured." Although most of these...
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The Complete Kwanzaa: Celebrating Our Cultural Harvest
by Dorothy W Riley Publisher Comments Kwanzaa is the joyous and meaningful holiday when African-Americans reunite with family and friends and pay tribute to their rich cultural heritage. Celebrated from December 26 through January 1, it is an important part of the lives of 18 million people,...
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Underground Railroad in Pennsylvania
by William J. Switala Publisher Comments Covers routes through the state, large city networks, and sites where escapees found refuge. Also records the names those who risked their lives to support the operation....
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