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Black Firsts: 4,000 Ground-Breaking and Pioneering Historical Events
by Jessie Carney (edt) Smith  Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 745-756) and index....
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Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (Blacks in the New World)
by John Dittmer Publisher Comments In 1964, nearly a thousand volunteers went to Mississippi to work with veteran civil rights organizers and local people on various projects. The summer began with three Ku Klux Klan murders and ended with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic party's...
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The Journey: A History of the African American Experience (Cpsj
by Dorothy C. Salem Publisher Comments By 1890, most (90.3%) African Americans remained in the South. The literacy rate had risen from 18.6% in 1870 to 42.9% in 1890, more reflective of progress in Black education in the North than in the former slave states of the South, where public school...
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Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto: Negro New York 1890-1930
by Gilbert Osofsky Publisher Comments For social history, no book has surpassed Mr. Osofsky's account of how a pleasant, pastoral upper-middle-class suburb of Manhattan turned into an appalling black slum within forty years. A careful and important study. --John Hope...
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Beyond Little Rock: The Origins and Legacies of the Central High Crisis
by John A. Kirk Publisher Comments Based on extensive archival work, private paper collections, and oral history, this book includes eight of John Kirk's essays, two of which have never been published before. Together, these essays locate the dramatic events of the crisis within the...
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Strangers in the Land of Paradise: The Creation of an African American Community, Buffalo, New York, 1900-1940 (Blacks in the Diaspora)
by Lillian Serece Williams Publisher Comments Strangers in the Land of Paradise discusses the creation of an African American community as a distinct cultural entity. It describes values and institutions that Black migrants from the South brought with them, as well as those that evolved as a result...
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Slave Songs of the United States
by William Francis Allen Synopsis Originally published in 1867, this book is a collection of songs of African-American slaves. A few of the songs were written after the emancipation, but all were inspired by slavery. The wild, sad strains tell as the sufferers themselves could, of...
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The Root of Roots: Or, How Afro-American Anthropology Got Its Start
by Richard Price Publisher Comments Anthropological iconoclasts Richard and Sally Price have spent the last two decades not only creating an unparalleled oeuvre of scholarship in several areas of anthropology but also unabashedly calling foul on any untenable or patronizing concepts of "us"...
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Race Against Empire : Black Americans and Anticolonialism, 1937-1957 (97 Edition)
by Penny M. Von Eschen 
Publisher Comments 'Race Against Empire' tells the poignant story of a popular movement and its precipitate decline with the onset of the Cold War....
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Let My People Go!: The Miracle of the Montgomery Bus Boycott
by Robert J Walker Book News Annotation Written in a manner intended to be accessible to a 5th-grade audience and above, this book by Walker (curriculum and instruction, Alabama State U.) retells the story of the Montgomery bus boycott, one of the seminal events of the American civil rights...
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Voices of the Buffalo Soldier: Records, Reports, and Recollections of Military Life and Service in the West
by Frank N. Schubert Publisher Comments All students of the frontier army as well as aficionados with a special interest in the Buffalo Soldiers will find this an invaluable tool. Drawing on a wide variety of periodicals, military records, and letters, the book covers such key topics as the...
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The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II: The Study Commissioned by the United States Army to Investigate Racial Bias i
by Elliott V. Converse Synopsis The purpose of this study, commissioned by the Army, was to document the process by which the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded from December 7, 1941, through September 1, 1948; to identify units in which African Americans served; to identify by...
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Black Worker (07 Edition)
by Eric Arenesen Publisher Comments Long before the modern civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s made a frontal assault on the reigning segregationist order, African American workers had to struggle against both their employers and fellow white workers. Because their efforts to...
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The Roots of African-American Identity: Memory and History in Free Antebellum Communities
by Elizabeth Rauh Bethel Publisher Comments Explores how a group of marginalized people crafted a uniquely New World ethnic identity that informed popular African American historical consciousness....
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When Harlem Nearly Killed King: The 1958 Stabbing of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Hugh Pearson Publisher Comments In 1958 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. During the tour, a mentally unstable African American woman stabbed the civil rights leader, and an acclaimed surgeon saved his life. Pearson captures this historical moment and the life-threatening episode becomes, in...
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How Long? How Long?: African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights
by Belinda Robnett Publisher Comments A compelling and readable narrative history, How Long? How Long? presents both a rethinking of social movement theory and a controversial thesis: that chroniclers have egregiously neglected the most important leaders of the Civil Rights movement, African-...
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Black Soldier of Mercy
by Joseph E. Brown Synopsis Joe Brown served in two wars during the time when black soldiers were finally getting the respect they deserved in the Unites States military. He was drafted into the U. S. Army at the end of WWII and released early when the war ended. Then the Korean...
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Bound for the Promised Land : African American Religion and the Great Migration (97 Edition)
by Milton C. Sernett Publisher Comments Bound for the Promised Land is the first extensive examination of the impact on the American religious landscape of the Great Migration--the movement from South to North and from country to city by hundreds of thousands of African Americans following...
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A Shining Thread of Hope
by Darlene Clark Hine and Kathleen Thompson Publisher Comments At the greatest moments and in the cruelest times, black women have been a crucial part of America's history. Now, the inspiring history of black women in America is explored in vivid detail by two leaders in the fields of African American and women's...
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We Have No Leaders: African Americans in the Post-Civil Rights Era (Suny Series in African American Studies)
by Robert C. Smith Publisher Comments This is the first comprehensive study of African American politics from the end of the 1960s civil rights era to the present. Not an optimistic book, it concludes that the black movement has been almost wholly encapsulated into mainstream institutions...
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