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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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South Carolina 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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Death in the Delta : the Story of Emmett Till (88 Edition)
by Stephen J. Whitfield Publisher Comments In August 1955, the mutilated body of Emmett Till -- a fourteen-year-old black Chicago youth -- was pulled from Mississippi's Tallahatchie River. Abducted, severely beaten, and finally thrown into the river with a weight fastened around his neck with...
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Divine Nine (00 Edition)
by L. Ross Publisher Comments America's Black fraternities and sororities are a unique and vital part of 20th-century African-American history. "The Divine Nine" tells how these organizations have played a major role in shaping generations of black leaders. Includes interviews with...
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The African-American Family in Slavery and Emancipation (Studies in Modern Capitalism)
by Wilma A. Dunaway Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-352) and index....
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Alabama 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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Virginia 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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North Carolina 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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Blood Relations : Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900 - 1930 (96 Edition)
by Irma Watkins-owens Publisher Comments Caribbean Immigrants and the Harlem Community, 1900-1930.In Blood Relations Irma Watkins-Owens focuses on the complex interaction of African Americans and African Caribbeans in Harlem during the first decades of the twentieth century. Between 1900 and...
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Silent Voices
by Josephine Carson Publisher Comments This is the first book ever published in the United States on the subject of black women. In a tribute to the unheard voices of black women, Josephine Carson explores, in the American South, the lives of black women among whom she lived and traveled and...
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Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
by Ira Berlin Publisher Comments Widely recognized as "one of the nation's foremost scholars on the slave era" ("Boston Globe"), Bancroft Prize-winning historian Ira Berlin has changed the way we think about African American life in slavery and freedom. This classic volume, now...
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Almanac of African-American Heritage: A Chronicle of People, Places, Times and Events That Shaped Black Culture
by Johnnie H Miles Publisher Comments This unparalleled resource celebrates the remarkable contributions of black men and women to the United States, beginning with the earliest slave ships to cross the Atlantic and culminating at the close of the 20th century. Witten by four African...
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Negroes With Guns (98 Edition)
by Robert F. Williams Publisher Comments First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups. Frustrated and angered by violence condoned or abetted by the local...
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African American Religious History
by Milton C. (edt) Sernett Publisher Comments "From reviews of the first edition": <BR>Anyone interested in America's religioius past, and, specifically the black religious experience will be rewarded by reading and urging others to read this fine <BR>anthology."--Robert Michael Franklin,...
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The Amistad Revolt: Memory, Slavery, and the Politics of Identity in the United States and Sierra Leone
by Iyunolu Folayan Osagie Publisher Comments From journalism and lectures to drama, visual art, and the Spielberg film, this study ranges across the varied cultural reactions -- in America and Sierra Leone -- engendered by the 1839 Amistad slave ship revolt.<P>Iyunolu Folayan Osagie is a...
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Generations of Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves,
by Ira Berlin Publisher Comments Ira Berlin traces the history of African-American slavery in the United States from its beginnings in the seventeenth century to its fiery demise nearly three hundred years later. Most Americans, black and white, have a singular vision of slavery, one...
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Gullah People and Their African Heritage (99 Edition)
by William S. Pollitzer Publisher Comments The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina--Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the native black population of the Sea Islands has developed a vibrant way of life that remains, in many ways...
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Forbidden Fruit: Love Stories from the Underground Railroad
by Betty Deramus Publisher Comments Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold stories of ordinary men and women who took extraor dinary measures, risking life and limb to be together. Its the story of couples who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to...
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Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color: Four Hundred Years of an American Families History
by Anita Wills Synopsis Notes and Documents of Free Persons of Color is a chronicle of Virginia's Creole Population. They were a mixed raced group, labled, "fpc", or Free Persons of Color by the Virginia Free Negro Registry. The book includes never before revealed...
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