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Blacks in Colonial America
by Oscar Reiss  Publisher Comments By the time of the American Revolution, blacks made up 20 percent of the colonial population. Early in colonial history, many blacks who came to America were indentured servants who served out their contracts and then settled in the colonies as free men....
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A George Washington Carver Handbook
by B. D. Mayberry Publisher Comments A George Washington Carver Handbook is a chronological account of the life and works of the famous inventor. Edited by Dr. B. D. Mayberry, this book includes a brief biography of George Washington Carver, tributes to Carter by state governments and...
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Jim Crow's Children: The Broken Promise of the Brown Decision
by Peter Irons Publisher Comments This award-winning study weaves together vivid portraits of lawyers and judges, sketches of numerous black children throughout history, and gripping courtroom drama scenes to reveal why schools are more segregated today than they were before "Brown v...
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What a Mighty Power We Can Be (06 Edition)
by Skocpolr Publisher Comments "Long before the twentieth-century Civil Rights movement, the fraternal and sororal organizations of the black community created and recreated sacred spaces of community solidarity and civic courage in the best spirit of American democracy. The authors...
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Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk about Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation
by Marc Favreau Publisher Comments The extraordinary interviews from the book component of "Remembering Slavery" are now published in an affordable paperback edition. "Moving recollections fill a void in the slavery literature. . . . Chilling."--"The Washington Post Book World." 40 photos....
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Slavery, Resistance, Freedom
by Gabor S Boritt Publisher Comments Americans have always defined themselves in terms of their freedoms--of speech, of religion, of political dissent. How we interpret our history of slavery--the ultimate denial of these freedoms--deeply affects how we understand the very fabric of our...
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Flames After Midnight (99 Edition)
by Monte Akers Publisher Comments What happened in Kirven, Texas, in May 1922, has been forgotten by the outside world. It was a co-worker's whispered words, Kirven is where they burned the Negroes , that set Monte Akers to work at discovering the true story behind a young white woman's...
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Maryland 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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Black Heroes
by Jessie Carney Smith Publisher Comments Brimming with information and more than 200 photographs, Black Heroes will intrigue and inspire all those who seek to know more about our nation's history. – Atlanta Metro. Black Heroes is a who's who of cultural importance to all Americans. In...
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In Our Own Image: Rituals, Journeys, and Traditions of Contemporary African America
by Patrik H Bass Publisher Comments The first visual document of black social and cultural history in America from World War II to the present, In Our Own Image is also a fascinating scrapbook that recounts simple, eloquent stories about home life, family reunions, worship, weddings...
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Black Women in Antiquity 2ND Edition
by Ivan Vansertima Publisher Comments This unique volume provides an overview of the black queens, madonnas, and goddesses who dominated the history and imagination of ancient times. The authors have concentrated on Ethiopia and Egypt because the documents of the Nile Valley are voluminous...
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Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cult)
by Heather An Williams Publisher Comments In this previously untold story of African American self-education, Heather Andrea Williams moves across time to examine African Americans' relationship to literacy during slavery, during the Civil War, and in the first decades of freedom. Self-Taught...
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Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African-American Leadership
by Lea E. Williams Publisher Comments Beginning with the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case, this book traces the lives of six American civil rights leaders as they willingly risk their lives for the civil rights cause: A. Philip Randolph, Frederick D. Patterson, Thurgood...
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Black Chicago's First Century, Volume 1: 1833-1900
by Christopher Robert Reed Publisher Comments In Black Chicago's First Century, Christopher Robert Reed provides the first comprehensive study of the first one hundred years of African American settlement and achievements in the Windy City. Encompassing a range of activities and events, Volume 1 of...
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History of African-American Artists: From 1792 to the Present
by Romare Bearden Publisher Comments A landmark work of art history: lavishly illustrated and extraordinary for its thoroughness, A History of African-American Artists -- conceived, researched, and written by the great American artist Romare Bearden with journalist Harry Henderson, who...
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Frederick Douglass and the Fourth of July
by James A Colaiaco Publisher Comments An important look at Frederick Douglass' pivotal July 4th, 1852, speech in which he identified the grand American Dilemma--the critical contradiction between slavery and our nation's ideals--and set the stage for his life's...
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""Seeing Red"" : Federal Campaigns Against Black Militancy, 1919-1925 (98 Edition)
by Theodore Jr. Kornweibel Publisher Comments A gripping, painstakingly documented account of a neglected chapter in the history of American political intelligence....
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Speak Out in Thunder Tones: Letters & Other Writings by Black Northerners, 1787-1865
by Dorothy Sterling Publisher Comments This impressive collection, drawn from a wealth of original research into previously untapped sourcesincluding letters, diaries, memoirs, speeches, poems, songs, newspaper articles, advertisements, a ship's log, and official documentsallows African...
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The Rebellious Slave: Nat Turner in American Memory
by Scot French Publisher Comments In this richly detailed study spanning the eras of slavery, the Civil War, Jim Crow, and civil rights, French places the contested history and enduring memory of Nat Turner's Rebellion within a broader American discourse on race, slavery, and the...
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Inheritors of the Spirit: Mary White Ovington and the Founding of Thenaacp
by Carolyn Wedin Publisher Comments "By highlighting the life of a key figure in the NAACP Wedin has given us a welcome addition to the literature of that organization."--Library Journal "In its densely researched, sensitively interpreted, and crisply written evocation of her subject's...
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