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Black Heroes
by Jessie Carney Smith  Publisher Comments Now available for the first time in paperback, Black Heroes is a who's who of cultural importance to all Americans. In recognition and celebration of African American achievement over the past 100 years, this landmark book details the lives of 150...
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All Bound Up Together: The Woman Question in African American Public Culture, 1830-1900
by Martha Jones Publisher Comments The place of women's rights in African American public culture has been an enduring question, one that has long engaged activists, commentators, and scholars. All Bound Up Together explores the roles black women played in their communities...
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Joining Places Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cult)
by Anthony E Kaye Publisher Comments In this new interpretation of antebellum slavery, Anthony Kaye offers a vivid portrait of slaves transforming adjoining plantations into slave neighborhoods. He describes men and women opening paths from their owners' plantations to adjacent farms to go...
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Syracuse African Americans (Black America)
by Barbara Sheklin Davis Publisher Comments Syracuse African Americans abounds with hard work, forbearance, determination, strength, and spirit. It depicts through photographs the heritage of this upstate New York African American community. The story spans several centuries, beginning when...
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African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000
by Quintard Taylor Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-371) and index....
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The New Man: Twenty-Nine Years a Slave, Twenty-Nine Years a Free Man: Recollections of H.C. Bruce (Blacks in the American West)
by Henry Clay Bruce Publisher Comments Born to black slaves in 1836, H.C. Bruce took the name of his master, a farmer in Prince Edward County, Virginia. After years of slaving on the plantation in Missouri and working in tobacco factories, Bruce escaped to freedom in Kansas with his future...
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Blackwell Companion to African American History (Blackwell Companions to American History)
by Alton, Jr. Hornsby Publisher Comments A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide range of subjects from the 17th century to the present day....
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Struggle Continues: Six Panaf Pamphlets
by Kwame Nkrumah Publisher Comments THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES The six pamphlets in this book reflect the indomitable spirit of Kwame Nkrumah, the symbol of fighting Africa. The first, What I Mean by Positive Action, was written in 1949 when the campaign for the independence of Ghana was at...
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Augusta (Black America)
by Sean Joiner Publisher Comments Filled with remarkable vintage photographs, Black America: Augusta, Georgia captures the essence of the African-American heritage in this historic Southern community. The Garden City has produced a wide variety of intellectual and political pioneers...
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African Americans of Harrisburg (Black America)
by John Welden Scott Publisher Comments Harrisburg served as a refuge and passageway for many African Americans fleeing the South via the Underground Railroad and moving north in search of freedom and a better way of life. African Americans of Harrisburg opens the door to this culturally...
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Man From Scottsboro : Clarence Norris and the Infamous 1931 Alabama Rape Trial, in His Own Words (03 Edition)
by Kwando Mbiassi Kinshasa Publisher Comments In March 1931, Clarence Norris and eight other black men were arrested in Paint Rock, Alabama, and charged with raping two white girls. The one day trial of the nine men, better known as the "Scottsboro Boys, " resulted in conviction and the death...
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A Century of Negro Migration
by Carter G Woodson Publisher Comments Provocative work by distinguished African-American scholar traces the migration north and westward of southern blacks, from the colonial era through the early 20th century. Documented with information from contemporary newspapers, personal letters, and...
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Islam Among Urban Blacks: Muslims in Newark, New Jersey a Social History
by Michael Nash Book News Annotation Nash (history, Essex County College and African American and African studies, Rutgers U.-Newark) is a native Newarker and historian of Islam in and around that city. He talks here not about Islam itself or even so much about a people impacted by it...
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Nat Turner's Slave Rebellion: Including the 1831 "Confessions"
by Herbert Aptheker Publisher Comments The first full-length study of the bloodiest slave uprising in U.S. history, this meticulously researched document explores the nature of Southern society in the early 19th century and the conditions that led to the rebellion. Aptheker's book includes...
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The Grandmarch "The Spirit of African-Americans": The National African Folk Dance-Wedding Dance
by R. Russel Ross Publisher Comments Mr. F. Russel Ross has found the missing traditional national folk wedding dance of the thirty-five million African Americans. His book The Grandmarch The Spirit of African Americans provides readers with a personal and well-researched journey that spans...
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Civil Rights Since 1787 : a Reader on the Black Struggle (00 Edition)
by Jonathan (ed.) Birnbaum Publisher Comments Read the Introduction. "Jonathan Birnbaum and Clarence Taylor have plumbed historical documents to produce a study that has both truth and urgency. . . . You could not do better than this book." —Jewish Currents Winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers...
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From Midnight to Dawn: The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad
by Jacqueline Tobin Publisher Comments * Mp3 CD Format *. From Midnight to Dawn evokes the turmoil and controversies of the time, including the furor over the publication of Uncle Tom's Cabin, congressional confrontations in Washington, and fierce disputes among black settlers in Canada over...
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Fighting on Two Fronts: African Americans and the Vietnam War
by James E. Westheider Publisher Comments "A very powerful account of a significant aspect of recent American military history." --Journal of Military History "Westheider has researched very thoroughly-an effort including extensive interviews with Vietnam veterans-and he possesses a rare gift...
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Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage: Greenwood Milestones in African American History (Greenwood Milestones in African American History)
by Toyin Falola And Amanda Warnock Publisher Comments This is the first encyclopedia devoted to the Middle Passage and the experiences of the slaves on these trans-Atlantic ships....
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Scottsboro, Alabama: A Story in Linoleum Cuts
by Lin Shi Khan Publisher Comments Explore this titile online! "Scotsboro, Alabama still has the power to inspire anger and outrage—and to remind us of a political legacy that still has relevance for the 21st century." — Against the Current "This extraordinary graphic book from...
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