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African Americans of Spotsylvania County (Images of America)
by Terry (edt) Miller  Synopsis Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was established in 1721, but it was not until after the Civil War that the names of approximately 4,700 African Americans born and/or living in the county were recorded for the first time. More than 150 African Americans...
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Eyes Off the Prize
by Carol Anderson Publisher Comments An account of the politics that forced the NAACP to abandon their human rights agenda....
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Black Empire: The Masculine Global Imaginary of Caribbean Intellectuals in the United States, 1914-1962 (New Americanists)
by Michelle Ann Stephens Publisher Comments In Black Empire, Michelle A. Stephens examines the idea of "transnational blackness" that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude...
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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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Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia (Women in American History)
by Daina Ramey Berry Publisher Comments Examining how labor and economy shaped the family life of bondwomen and bondmen in the antebellum South "Swing the Sickle for the Harvest Is Ripe" compares the work, family, and economic experiences of enslaved women and men in upcountry...
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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
by Scott E. Casper Publisher Comments New Stories From an Old American Shrine The home of our first president has come to symbolize the ideals of our nation: freedom for all, national solidarity, and universal democracy. Mount Vernon is a place where the memories of George Washington...
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Black Slaveowners: Free Black Slave Masters in South Carolina, 1790-1860
by Larry Koger Publisher Comments A chapter of African American history that will shock many readers....
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An American Beach for African Americans
by Marsha Dean Phelts Publisher Comments "I am excited by this book. It is a great addition to the woefully scant scholarly materials that deal with the African American contribution to Florida history and culture.... Original and significant". -- Patricia Waterman, University of South...
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Race Against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit (Working Class in American History)
by David M. Lewis-colman Publisher Comments Race against Liberalism: Black Workers and the UAW in Detroit examines how black workers' activism in Detroit shaped the racial politics of the labor movement and the white working class. Tracing substantive, longstanding disagreements between liberals...
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On the Road to Freedom: A Guided Tour of the Civil Rights Trail
by Charles Cobb Publisher Comments Through firsthand interviews, maps, photographs, and sidebars, award-winning journalist and 1960s activist Charles E. Cobb Jr. conducts a pilgrimage through the heart of the Civil Rights era....
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Slave Religion : the Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South, Updated Edition (04 Edition)
by Albert J. Raboteau Publisher Comments Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the...
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Selling the Race: Culture, Community, and Black Chicago, 1940-1955 (Historical Studies of Urban America)
by Adam Green Publisher Comments Black Chicagoans were at the center of a national movement in the 1940s and ’50s, when African Americans across the country first started to see themselves as part of a single culture. In fact, Adam Green argues, this vibrant period in Windy City...
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Harlem on the Verge
by Alice Attie Publisher Comments These magnificent color portraits document both the people and the buildings of Harlem on the eve of great change. With a sense of both dedication and desperation (to beat the developer's clock) Attie has produced a beautiful record of a world rapidly...
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Celia, a Slave : a True Story (91 Edition)
by Melton A. Mclaurin Publisher Comments Celia was an ordinary slave--until she struck back at her abusive master and became the defendant in a landmark trial that threatened to undermine the very foundations of the South's "Peculiar Institution."...
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The Souls of Black Folk (Modern Library)
by W E B Du Bois Publisher Comments When first published in 1903, W.E.B. Du Bois' s The Souls of Black Folk struck like a thunderclap, quickly establishing itself as a work that wholly redefined the history of the black experience in America, introducing the now famous " problem of the...
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Strange Career of Jim Crow, Commemorative Edition (3RD 02 Edition)
by C. Vann Woodward Publisher Comments C. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Southern historian, the winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Mary Chestnut's Civil War and a Bancroft Prize for The Origins of the New South. Now, to honor his long and truly...
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Slavery and Emancipation (Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History)
by Rick Halpern Publisher Comments Slavery and Emancipation is a comprehensive collection of primary and secondary readings on the history of slaveholding in the American South combining recent historical research with period documents....
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Separate and Unequal (04 Edition)
by Harvey Fireside Publisher Comments When Homer A. Plessy, a New Orleans shoemaker, refused to move to the "Jim Crow" railroad car set aside for Negroes by state law, he initiated a lawsuit challenging the entire system of racial segregation. In Separate but Unequal, Harvey Fireside traces...
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Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime That Changed America
by Christopher Benson Publisher Comments There are many heroes of the civil rights movement—men and women we can look to for inspiration. Each has a unique story, a path that led to a role as leader or activist. Death of Innocence is the heartbreaking and ultimately inspiring story of one...
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Struggle for Freedom : History of African Americans (07 Edition)
by Clayborne Carson Publisher Comments "The Struggle for Freedom, "a narrative of the black experience in America, uses a distinctive biographical approach to guide the story and animate the history. In each chapter, individual African Americans are the pivot points on which historical...
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