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The Tribe of Black Ulysses: African American Lumber Workers in the Jim Crow South
by William Powell Jones  Publisher Comments The lumber industry employed more African American men than any southern economic sector outside agriculture, yet those worker have been almost completely ignored by scholars. Drawing on a substantial number of oral history interviews as well as on...
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Natchitoches Parish (Black America)
by Rolonda D. Teal Publisher Comments From 1722 to the present, thousands of people of African descent have occupied the region that today encompasses Natchitoches Parish. For almost 300 years, African Americans have made significant contributions to the areas economic and social...
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Eradicating This Evil: Women in the American Anti-Lynching Movement, 1892-1940 (Studies in African American History and Culture)
by Mary Jane Brown Publisher Comments Rather than discussing one aspect of women's anti-lynching activism, this book examines the subject in its entirety, from the 1890s to 1940s. It also discusses how differing goals and perceptions of the problem led to conflict within the movement.<BR...
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Freedpeople in the Tobacco South: Virginia, 1860-1900
by Jeffrey R. Kerr-ritchie Publisher Comments Throughout the colonial and antebellum periods, Virginia's tobacco producers exploited slave labor to ensure the profitability of their agricultural enterprises. In the wake of the Civil War, however, the abolition of slavery, combined with changed...
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Around Surry County (Black America)
by Evelyn, Ph.d. Scales Thompson Publisher Comments From slavery in the 1800s to freedom in the 1950s, Black America Series: Around Surry County traces the footsteps of African Americans through their transition from house servants and field hands to land owners, farmers, and successful small business...
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Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee
by Lawrence P. Scott Publisher Comments Another jewel in the growing literature about African-American contributions to aviation has arrived with the release of Double V: The Civil Rights Struggle of the Tuskegee Airmen. Thoroughly researched and punctuated with absorbing personal vignettes...
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Fighting for Us: Maulana Karenga, the Us Organization, and Black Cultural Nationalism
by Scot Brown Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Introduction. "A detailed and sober account . . . Fighting for US is of enormous and permanent value." —Publishers Weekly "Readers will find Brown's study a well-researched document on the key...
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Journey of Hope: The Back-To-Africa Movement in Arkansas in the Late 1800s (John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Cult)
by Kenneth C. Barnes Publisher Comments Founded in the 1820s by the American Colonization Society as an African refuge for former American slaves, Liberia in the late 1800s received more emigrants from Arkansas than from any other state. Barnes explains why the back-to-Africa movement was so...
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The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia
by Matthew D. Lassiter Book News Annotation In 1958, facing court-ordered integration, Virginia's governor closed public schools in three cities. His action provoked not only the NAACP but also large numbers of white middle-class Virginians who organized to protest school closings. This...
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African American Theater Buildings: An Illustrated Historical Directory, 1900-1955
by Eric Ledell Smith Publisher Comments The 1,850 theater buildings owned or managed by blacks from 1900 to 1960 are arranged by state, then by city, and then alphabetically under the name by which they were known to their audiences. The street address, dates of operation, number of seats...
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Northern Kentucky (Black America)
by Eric R. Jackson Publisher Comments Along the picturesque southern banks of the Ohio River, the African-American communities of Boone, Campbell, and Kenton Counties have provided laborers and entrepreneurs to aid in the economic growth of the region from the earliest settlements to today...
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Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II: The Study Commissioned by the United States Army to Investigate Racial Bias in the Awarding of the Nation's Highest Military Decora
by Elliott V. Converse Publisher Comments The purpose of this study, commissioned by the Army, was to document the process by which the Congressional Medal of Honor was awarded from December 7, 1941, through September 1, 1948; to identify units in which African Americans served; to identify by...
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Union County Black Americans (Black America)
by Ethel M. Washington Publisher Comments "Union County Black Americans is a first-time glimpse into the struggles and triumphs of local Blacks from the first days of English rule to contemporary times. Using a wide array of images and concisely written original text, the book juxtaposes Black...
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African Americans and Civil Rights: From 1619 to 1995
by Michael L. Levine Publisher Comments This concise well-written narrative chronicles the struggle for African American civil rights over a period of more than 350 years. Beginning in 1619 when the first African slave ship arrived in America and continuing to the present, the author gives...
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Black Americans: A History in Their Own Words 1619-1983
by Milton Meltzer Publisher Comments The long agony of slavery. The jubilation of freedom. The slow, frustrating road to equality. Here, in the voices of the forgotten as well as the famous, is the living history of Black Americans- selections from letters, speeches, memoirs, and...
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Crosscurrents in African American History #06: Unyielding Spirits: Black Women and Slavery in Early Canada and Jamaica
by Maureen G. Elgersman Publisher Comments This comparative study uncovers the differences and similarities in the experiences of Black women enslaved in colonial Canada and Jamaica, and demonstrates how differences in the exploitation of women's productive and reproductive labor caused slavery...
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African Americans in Minnesota: Telling Our Own Stories (People of the Heartland)
by Nora Murphy Publisher Comments African Americans in Minnesota features true stories about the lives and times of nine children and adults whose contributions to their state's history span nearly two centuries, from the early 1800s to the present day. These stories include accounts of...
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From Whence Cometh My Help: The African American Community at Hollins College
by Ethel Morgan Smith Publisher Comments In 1842 Charles Lewis Cocke brought sixteen slaves with him to Roanoke, Virginia, when he founded Hollins College, an elite women's school. Early students also brought their slaves to the college town. Upon Emancipation many of the African Americans of...
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Black Genius
by Dick Russell Publisher Comments In search of distinctly African-American qualities of genius, Russell has conducted interviews and historical research that explore the roots of black achievement in America. of photos....
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Groundwork: Local Black Freedom Movements in America
by Charles Payne Publisher Comments View the Table of Contents. Read the Foreword. "The thirteen essays in this important collection examine grass-roots struggles for racial justice throughout the United States from 1940-1980...Read together, these essays remind us that...
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