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Tennessee 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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Seed of Sally Good'n-Pa
by Ruth Polk Patterson Publisher Comments The skillful blending of folklore, history, and personal insight makes The Seed Of Sally Good'n an excellent contribution to the long neglected history of middle-class African Americans....
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Malcolm X: Inventing Radical Judgment (Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series)
by Robert E Terrill 
Publisher Comments Prior to this text, little has been done to analyze Malcolm X's speeches. Author Robert Terrill explores the key texts from the African-American protest, those delivered while he was a minister for the Nation of Islam and afterwards. This volume shows...
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Frederick Douglass: A Precursor of Liberation Theology (Voices of the African Diaspora)
by Reginald F Davis Publisher Comments Frederick Douglass: A Precursor of Liberation Theology deals with the evolution of Frederick Douglass's philosophical and theological development. This book is another paradigm that expands the debate and places Douglass's thought in a more appropriate...
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The State of Black Michigan, 1967-2007
by Joe T. Darden Publisher Comments During the summer of 1967, race riots swept across U.S. cities. Detroit was the scene of one of the worst of these. The State of Black Michigan is a landmark volume that investigates how, since 1967, Michigan's black population has changed, how its...
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A Life Is More Than a Moment: The Desegregation of Little Rock's Central High
by Ira Wilmer Counts Publisher Comments 50th Anniversary Edition of a bestselling book that tells the story behind the photographs that shocked our...
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Allies for Freedom & Blacks on John Brown
by Benjamin Quarles Publisher Comments One of the most compelling figures in American history-John Brown-as portrayed in two classic works by a renowned African-American historian, with a new introduction. John Brown is an endlessly fascinating historical figure. Here are two classic studies...
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African Americans During Reconstruction (Slavery in the Americas)
by Richard Worth 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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Trouble in Mind : Black Southerners in the Age of Jim Crow (98 Edition)
by Leon F. Litwack Publisher Comments "The stain of Jim Crow runs deep in 20th-century America. . . . Its effects remain the nation's most pressing business. Trouble in Mind is an absolutely essential account of its dreadful history and calamitous legacy." --The Washington Post <BR>...
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Songs of Zion: The African Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States and South Africa
by James T. Campbell Publisher Comments Founded by free people of color in Philadelphia in the aftermath of the American Revolution, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church emerged in the nineteenth century as the preeminent black institution in the United States. In 1896, the church...
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By the Work of Their Hands: Studies in Afro-American Folklife
by John Michael Vlach Publisher Comments In this book, America's foremost scholar of African-American folklife revolutionizes our understanding of Afro-American material culture. Bringing to the essays his extensive research into the written, oral, and material sources of Afro-American culture...
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Brotherman
by Herb Boyd Publisher Comments "[AN] OUTSTANDING COLLECTION...<BR>The powerful opening excerpt by Frederick Douglass evokes his boyhood as a slave, and the collection closes with an eloquent discussion of the race problem today by Cornel West. A distinguished addition to black...
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Colored Amazons : Crime, Violence, and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, 1880-1910 (06 Edition)
by Kali N. Gross Publisher Comments Colored Amazons is a groundbreaking historical analysis of the crimes, prosecution, and incarceration of black women in Philadelphia at the turn of the twentieth century. Kali N. Gross reconstructs black women's crimes and their representations in...
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Crossing the Danger Water: Three Hundred Years of African-American Writing
by Deirdre Mullane Publisher Comments The history of African-American life and thought presented in this anthology represents a far-reaching written and oral tradition, which is thought-provoking, inspiring, and impressive in its breadth. It includes poetry and prose by today's best and most...
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Stories of Freedom in Black New York
by Shane White Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-249) and index....
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Worlds Great Men of Color Volume 1
by J A Rogers Publisher Comments An eye-opening account of the great black personalities of world history. <P>In this first volume: outstanding blacks of Asia and Africa, and historical figures before Christ-- including Akhenaton, Aesop, Hannibal, Cleopatra, Zenobia, Askia the...
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Many Minds, One Heart: Sncc's Dream for a New America
by Wesley C Hogan Publisher Comments How did the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee break open the caste system in the American South between 1960 and 1965? In this innovative study, Wesley Hogan explores what SNCC accomplished and, more important, "how" it fostered significant...
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Black Resistance / White Law : a History of Constitutional Racism in America ((Rev)94 Edition)
by Mary Frances Berry Publisher Comments Unavailable for a decade and now completely updated for the 1990s, this landmark book shows how the American government has used the Constitution to maintain a racist status quo. Berry analyzes the reasons why African Americans whose lives have improved...
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The Mark of Zion: Congregational Life in Black Churches
by Stephen C Rasor Publisher Comments The companion book in "The Shape of Zion. Leadership and Life in Black Chamber is the only Gallip-supported national sample of black relignary. Rasor and Dash propose that the black experiences in America offers a significance presence in the religious...
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Race, Reform and Rebellion : Second Reconstruction and Beyond in Black America, 1945-2006 (3RD 07 Edition)
by Manning Marable Publisher Comments An updated edition of a book that has become a standard in the study of African American...
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