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Struggles Before Brown: Early Civil Rights Protests and Their Significance Today (Advancing the Sociological Imagination)
by Jean Van Delinder  Publisher Comments There were many little-known challenges to racial segregation before the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education (1954). The author's oral history interviews highlight civil rights protests seldom considered significant, but that...
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Race, Social Reform, and the Making of a Black Middle Class: Atlanta, 1870-1900
by Joseph O. Jewell Publisher Comments Periods of time characterized by large scale social change encourage reinterpretations of the meanings of categories like race and class, strategies for their reproduction, and their relationship to one another as social structures. The racialized nature...
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Fire in My Soul
by Joan Steinau Lester Publisher Comments Impassioned civil rights activist, champion of women's rights, hard-driving legislator -- U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is known in Washington as the "Warrior on the Hill." "Fire in My Soul" is the story of Norton's extraordinary political...
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African Cherokees in Indian Territory: From Chattel to Citizens
by Celia E Naylor Publisher Comments Forcibly removed from their homes in the late 1830s, Cherokee, Creek, Choctaw, and Chickasaw Indians brought their African-descended slaves with them along the Trail of Tears and resettled in Indian Territory, present-day Oklahoma. Celia E. Naylor...
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American Pogrom: The East St. Louis Race Riot and Black Politics (Law Society & Politics in the Midwest)
by Charles Lumpkins Publisher Comments On July 2 and 3, 1917, race riots rocked the small industrial city of East St. Louis, Illinois. American Pogrom takes the reader beyond that pivotal time in the city’s history to explore black people’s activism from the antebellum era to the...
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The Gullah People and Their African Heritage
by William S. Pollitzer Publisher Comments The Gullah people are one of our most distinctive cultural groups. Isolated off the South Carolina-Georgia coast for nearly three centuries, the native black population of the Sea Islands has developed a vibrant way of life that remains, in many ways, as...
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1001 Things Everyone Should Know about African American History
by Jeffrey C. Stewart Publisher Comments Where can one go to get a comprehensive and entertaining account of the most significant events, individuals and social processes of African-American history? Fear not, because "1001 Things Everyone Should Know About African-American History is history...
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Slave Counterpoint: Black Culture in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake and Lowcountry
by Philip Morgan Publisher Comments On the eve of the American Revolution, nearly three-quarters of all African Americans in mainland British America lived in two regions: the Chesapeake, centered in Virginia, and the Lowcountry, with its hub in South Carolina. Here, Philip Morgan compares...
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The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany, 1812-1885
by Dorothy Sterling Publisher Comments Decades before Marcus Garvey, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Malcolm X, Martin Robison Delany (1812-1885) proclaimed his pride in being black, and demanded, not only emancipation but independence for African Americans. Frederick Douglass said of his friend and...
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To Make Our World Anew Volume 2
by Robin D G Kelley Publisher Comments The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves into the...
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The Negro Leagues, 1869-1960
by Leslie A. Heaphy Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-364) and index....
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Chicago's New Negroes: Modernity, the Great Migration, & Black Urban Life
by Davarian L. Baldwin Publisher Comments As early-twentieth-century Chicago swelled with an influx of at least 250,000 new black urban migrants, the city became a center of consumer capitalism, flourishing with professional sports, beauty shops, film production companies, recording studios, and...
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Critical Issues in Educating African American Youth: A Talk with Jawanza
by Jawanza Kunjufu Publisher Comments Answers the question of how a single, low income parent can produce a high achieving student....
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Black and Brown: African Americans and the Mexican Revolution,1910-1920 (American History and Culture)
by Gerald Horne Publisher Comments Winner of a 2005 Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award (Honorable Mention) "Gerald Horne is one of America's most outstanding and prolific historians. In his latest work, Horne illustrates the extensive involvement of black Americans in Mexico's...
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Chattanooga (Black America)
by The Chattanooga African American Museum Publisher Comments Some of the earliest abolition movements in the country started in East Tennessee, and Chattanooga has continued this proud tradition of being a progressive city for African Americans. The city benefits from its many successful <BR>African-American...
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Black Physicians in the Jim Crow South
by Thomas J. Ward Publisher Comments THE CHALLENGES OF PRACTICING MEDICINE WHILE BLACK. In this comprehensive account, Thomas J. Ward examines the development of the African American medical profession in the South. Under segregation, the white medical profession provided inadequate service...
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The Definitive Emmett Till: Passion and Battle of a Woman for Truth and Intellectual Justice
by Clenora Hudson-weems Publisher Comments It has always been said that truth will ultimately prevail. This three part book represents that truism. Part One presents the untainted facts surrounding the story of Till's brutal lynching and the establishment of that incident as the true catalyst of...
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Israel on the Appomattox: A Southern Experiment in Black Freedom from the 1790s Through the Civil War
by Melvin Patrick Ely Publisher Comments Princeton history professor Melvin Patrick Ely chronicles a moving story of hope and hardship, pride and achievement, among free blacks in antebellum Virginia. 43 illustrations in text. 3 maps....
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Black Pride: The Philosophy and Opinions of Black Nationalism: A Six-Volume History of Black Culture in Two Parts
by Herbert L. Neilly Publisher Comments This comprehensive history of the Black experience is truly an eye-opener. Herbert L. Neilly, as editor, has gleaned significant details from major events in the lives of Blacks as a whole, from the dawn of history through the last six millennia up until...
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Exchanging Our Country Marks : the Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South (98 Edition)
by Michael A. Gomez Publisher Comments Recovers the diverse ethnic roots of Africans brought into slavery in the American South by identifying concrete links between African populations and their North American progeny....
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