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Obama: From Promise to Power
by David Mendell  Publisher Comments Barack Obama is arguably the most dynamic political figure to grace the American stage since John F. Kennedy. His meteoric rise from promise to power has stunned even the cynics and inspired a legion of devout followers. For anyone who wants to know more...
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The Framing of Mumia Abu-Jamal
by J Patrick Oconnor Publisher Comments Sentenced to death in 1982 for allegedly killing a police officer named Daniel Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal is the most famous death row inmate in the United States, if not the world. This book is the first to convincingly show how the Philadelphia Police...
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The Word of the Lord Is Upon Me: The Righteous Performance of Martin Luther King, Jr.
by Jonathan Rieder Publisher Comments andldquo;You donandrsquo;t know me,andrdquo; Martin Luther King, Jr., once declared to those who criticized his denunciation of the Vietnam War, who wanted to confine him to the ghetto of andldquo;blackandrdquo; issues. Now, forty years after being...
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Walking in Circles: The Black Struggle for School Reform
by Barbara A. Sizemore Publisher Comments In this examination of the American school system, a career education expert determines how existing policies have kept inner-city youth at a disadvantage—citing, among other issues, the achievement gap between black and white students...
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Meditations and Ascension: Black Writers on Writing
by Brenda Greene Publisher Comments Representing conversations from the Eighth National Black Writers Conference in 2006, this collection provides in-depth meditations and analyses of literature by black writers. Reflections on the black experience, the American experience, and a more...
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April 4, 1968: Martin Luther King, JR.'s Death and How It Changed America
by Michael Eric Dyson Publisher Comments On April 4, 1968, at 6: 01 PM, while he was standing on a balcony at a Memphis hotel, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and fatally wounded. Only hours earlier King—the prophet for racial and economic justice in America—ended his final speech...
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An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King
by William F Pepper Publisher Comments The definitive account of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, published on the 40th anniversary of his death. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the most powerful and eloquent champion of the poor and oppressed in US history, and at the height of his...
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We Shall Overcome: A History of Civil Rights and the Law
by Alexander Tsesis Publisher Comments Despite America’s commitment to civil rights from the earliest days of nationhood, examples of injustices against minorities stain many pages of U.S. history. The battle for racial, ethnic, and gender fairness remains unfinished. This comprehensive...
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Ida: A Sword Among Lions: Ida B. Wells and the Campaign Against Lynching
by Paula J Giddings Publisher Comments From a thinker who Maya Angelou has praised for shining a brilliant light on the lives of women left in the shadow of history, comes the definitive biography of Ida B. Wells--a crusading journalist and pioneer in the fight against segregation and...
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My Father Said Yes: A White Pastor in Little Rock School Integration
by Dunbar H. Ogden Publisher Comments The story missing from Little Rock histories, the story of the remarkable collaboration between a white male pastor and a black female journalist, that led to a turning point in the Civil Rights Movement and in education....
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Sweet Release: The Last Step to Black Freedom
by James, Jr. Davidson Synopsis In this candid assessment of the problems and potentials facing African Americans, psychologist Davidson argues that in order for achieving individuals to advance to the final step of freedom, they must break free from the mental shackles created by the...
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What Would Martin Say?
by Clarence Jones Publisher Comments On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, depriving the world of one of the greatest moral authorities of the twentieth century. He was thirty-nine. King had...
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What Moves at the Margin: Selected Nonfiction
by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments Thirty years of the Nobel Laureate's reflections on life, writing, and other...
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Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves (Race and Ethnicity in the American West)
by Art Burton Publisher Comments Deputy U.S. Marshal Bass Reeves appears as one of “eight notable Oklahomans,” the “most feared U.S. marshal in the Indian country.” That Reeves was also an African American who had spent his early life as a slave in Arkansas and...
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Can We Talk about Race?: And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation
by Beverly Tatum Publisher Comments In Can We Talk About Race? psychologist and educator Beverly Daniel Tatum, one of our leading commentators on race and schools, analyzes some of the most resonant issues in American education and race relations. A provocative and important book...
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Degrees of Freedom: Louisiana and Cuba After Slavery
by Rebecca J Scott Publisher Comments As Louisiana and Cuba emerged from slavery in the late nineteenth century, each faced the question of what rights former slaves could claim. Degrees of Freedomcompares and contrasts these two societies in which slavery was destroyed by war, and...
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Inhuman Bondage : the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (06 Edition)
by David Brion Davis Publisher Comments David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his...
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Chief Lieutenant of Tuskegee Machine : Charles Banks of Mississippi (02 Edition)
by David H. Jackson Publisher Comments Charles Banks (1873-1923) was a key member of the so-called Tuskegee Machine, a national network of 'lieutenants' who served as Booker T. Washington's eyes and ears at the state and local levels....
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The Great War and the Culture of the New Negro
by Mark Whalan Publisher Comments More than 200,000 African American soldiers fought in World War I, and returning troops frequently spoke of "color-blind" France. Such cosmopolitan experiences, along with the brutal, often desegregated no-man's-land between the trenches...
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Slavery and the Peculiar Solution: A History of the American Colonization Society (Southern Dissent)
by Eric Burin About the Author Eric Burin is assistant professor of history at the University of North Dakota....
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