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The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal: A Life in the Balance (Seven Stories' Open Media Pamphlet Series)
by Amnesty International
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Mumia Abu-Jamal, a black man, was convicted and sentenced to death in 1982 for the murder of white police officer Daniel Faulkner. Based on an exhaustive review of the trial transcript and other original documents, Amnesty International determined that... ( read more)
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Come Hell Or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster
by Michael Eric Dyson
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Displaying the intellectual rigor, political passion, and personal empathy that have won him acclaim, Dyson offers a searing assessment of the meaning of Hurricane Katrina. He warns that society must acknowledge that Katrina was more than an engineering... ( read more)
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Challenging the Boundaries of Slavery (Nathan I. Huggins Lectures)
by David Brion Davis
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [95]-106) and index.... ( read more)
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Inherit the Land: Jim Crow Meets Miss Maggie's Will
by Gene Stowe
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In the early twentieth century, two wealthy white sisters, cousins to a North Carolina governor, wrote identical wills that left their substantial homeplace to a black man and his daughter. Maggie Ross, whose sister Sallie died in 1909, was the richest... ( read more)
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The Anatomy of Racial Inequality (W.E.B. Du Bois Lectures)
by Glenn C Loury
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Speaking wisely and provocatively about the political economy of race, Glenn Loury has become one of our most prominent black intellectuals--and, because of his challenges to the orthodoxies of both left and right, one of the most controversial. A major... ( read more)
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The World of Patience Gromes: Making and Unmaking a Black Community
by Scott C Davis
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The grandfather of Patience Gromes escaped from slavery at age 14. This book traces Patience and her family for a hundred years -- from the Civil War to the War on Poverty.<P>After the War Patience and her peers left the country and came to the... ( read more)
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Age Ain't Nothing But a Number: Black Women Explore Midlife
by Carleen Brice
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Forty-five black women writers--known and new--discuss midlife in the first anthology of its kind. "Age Ain't Nothing but a Number" celebrates, considers, contemplates, even criticizes "midlife" from a black woman's point of view.... ( read more)
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The Passion of My Times: My Fifty-Year Journey Through the Civil Rights Revolution
by William L Taylor
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In 1954, William L. Taylor, a recent Yale Law School graduate, joined Thurgood Marshall's NAACP Legal Defense Fund, where he would later write the victorious 1958 Supreme Court brief that forced Little Rock, Arkansas schools to desegregate. In this... ( read more)
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Should America Pay?: Slavery and the Raging Debate on Reparations
by Raymond Winbush
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-382) and index.... ( read more)
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Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil (Classics in Black Studies)
by W E B Du Bois
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First published in 1920, this fascinating collection of short works by the pioneering African American scholar W. E. B. Du Bois launched a series of critical commentaries on some of the most important issues pertaining to white-black relations. Many of... ( read more)
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Girl in the Mirror: Three Generations of Black Women in Motion
by Natasha Tarpley
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From runaway slaves to the Great Migration, black people have uprooted themselves in search of a better life. Yet migration has also meant loss: rootlessness, separation from family, disconnection from ancestors and the past. In this family memoir told... ( read more)
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The Poetry of Black America: Anthology of the 20th Century
by Arnold Adoff
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Arnold Adoff has written over twenty-five books of poetry for young readers, including Slow Dance Heartbreak Blues,illustrated by William Cotton; and Street Music: City Poems,illustrated by Karen Barbour, both of which are available at your local library.... ( read more)
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Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor
by Charles A. Beardsley and William B.Gould and Mark O. Hatfield
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In Darkness with God: The Life of Joseph Gomez, a Bishop in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
by Annetta L. Gomez-Jefferson
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Joseph Gomez, an A.M.E. minister who rose through the ministerial ranks to be ordained a bishop in 1948, was also a teacher, civil rights pioneer, scholar, writer, and humanitarian. Gomez's daughter draws on his letters, journals, and church records for... ( read more)
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Pierre Toussaint
by Arthur Jones
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Sugar in the Raw: Voices of Young Black Girls in America
by Rebecca Carroll
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With raw candor, elicited by Rebecca Carroll's perceptive questioning, 15 black women between the ages of 11 and 18, from places as diverse as Brooklyn and Seattle, Alabama and Vermont, speak out about their inner and outer lives. What they say about... ( read more)
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The Time and Place That Gave Me Life
by Janet Cheatham Bell
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A coming-of-age memoir that confronts race and gender issues in middle America during the preCivil Rights... ( read more)
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Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
by Frederick Douglass
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This is the first paperback facsimile edition of a work which contributed strongly to the Black people's struggle for freedom and equality. Born in slavery in Maryland in 1817, Frederick Douglass escaped from servitude twenty years later, joined the... ( read more)
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A Wealth of Wisdom: Legendary African American Elders Speak
by Dr. Camille A. Cosby and Renee Poussaint
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A Wealth of Wisdom Legendary African American Elders Speak Camille O. Cosby and Renee Poussaint believe, as do legions here and around the world, that the wisdom of our elders is our most valuable resource. "Longevity has its virtues," said Martin Luther... ( read more)
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With Head and Heart: The Autobiography of Howard Thurman
by Howard Thurman
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Howard Thurman was a unique man-a black minister, philosopher, and educator whose vitality and vision touched the lives of countless people of all races, faiths, and cultures. Index; photographs.<BR>... ( read more)
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