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Why Not Every Man? by George Hendrick Publisher Comments The record of civil disobedience by African Americans begins soon after slaves were brought legally to the American colonies: they began to run away. Through the years of the abolitionists, the struggle against the Fugitive Slave Act, Emancipation... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Call to a Purposeful Life by William D Lewis Synopsis When I walk out of prison, this was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both. Some say this has now been achieved. But, I know this is not the case. The truth is that we are not free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free... (read more) List Price $30.99 Your price $6.90 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list African Americans and the Quest for Civil Rights, 1900-1990 by Sean Dennis Cashman Publisher Comments In this lavishly illustrated volume, Sean Dennis Cashman surveys the history of civil rights in twentieth-century America. The book charts the principal course of civil rights against the dramatic backdrop of two world wars, the Great Depression, the... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South by Brenda E Stevenson Publisher Comments Life in the old South has always fascinated Americans--whether in the mythical portrayals of the planter elite from fiction such as Gone With the Wind or in historical studies that look inside the slave cabin. Now Brenda E. Stevenson presents a reality... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Three Black Generations At the Crossroad by Lois Benjamin Publisher Comments Drawing on research and interviews in an ongoing project on black professionals in the US and utilizing the postfigurative, cofigurative, and prefigurative models of anthropologist Margaret Mead, Benjamin has provided a neat structure to understand 20th... (read more) Your price $7.20 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Healing the Heart, Healing the Hood by Olgen Sr Williams Publisher Comments In Healing the Heart, Healing the Hood, Olgen Williams traces his dramatic journey from embittered, drug-using Vietnam veteran to nationally acclaimed neighborhood activist. His sudden, miraculous re-orientation from drugs and despair to faith and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $12.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South by Gene Cheek Publisher Comments Nine years after the landmark civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, and only a year before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a judge in the Forsyth County Courthouse of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, wrenched twelve-year-old Gene Cheek from... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel: Readings in the Interpretation of Afro-American Folklore (Critical Studies on Black Life and Culture) by Alan Dundes Synopsis Essays explore the diversity of Black folk culture as expressed in speech, music, legends, and humor.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow by Donnie Williams Publisher Comments The heroism of those involved in the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott is presented here in poignant detail. The untold stories of those whose lives were forever changed by the boycott are shared, along with a chilling glimpse into the world of the white... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list We Ain't What We Was: Civil Rights in the New South by Frederick Wirt Publisher Comments When officials of the U.S. Department of Justice came in 1961 to Panola County in the Mississippi delta, they found a closed society in which race relations had not altered significantly since Reconstruction. Much has changed, however, in Mississippi in... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in African American Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Soul Survivors: An African American Spirituality by Carlyle Fie Stewart Publisher Comments This perceptive study of African American spirituality sees the experience of the African American church as an example for all other peoples in their struggles for liberation from the world's shackles.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $3.85 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom: The Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery by William Craft Publisher Comments Husband and wife William and Ellen Craft's break from slavery in 1848 was perhaps the most extraordinary in American history. Numerous newspaper reports in the United States and abroad told of how the two -- fair-skinned Ellen disguised as a white slave... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Classic Slave Narratives (Signet Classics) by Henry Louis Gates Publisher Comments By 1944, over six thousand ex-slaves had written moving stories of their captivity, providing a prolific testimony to the horrors of bondage and servitude. Noted scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. compiles four of the most important "slave narratives" in... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list An American Story by Debra Dickerson Publisher Comments A profoundly courageous and insightful memoir, An American Story" documents the events that have shaped journalist Debra Dickerson's conscience. <BR>The daughter of former sharecroppers, Dickerson never imagined she would emerge from her squalid St.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Stories of Scottsboro by James E Goodman Publisher Comments "A rich and compelling narrative, as taut and suspenseful as good fiction. In places, Stories of Scottsboro is almost heartbreaking, not least because Goodman shows what people felt as well as what they thought." -- Washington Post Book World <BR>... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution by Sidney Kaplan Publisher Comments "A treasure store of information on African-American history". -- Maryland Historical... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $3.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America by Tavis Smiley Publisher Comments In Keeping the Faith, nationally acclaimed author and commentator Tavis Smiley, host of NPR’s The Tavis Smiley Show, weaves stories of over one hundred African Americans into a rich tapestry of intimate testimonies about life, love, and inner... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Three Classic African-American Novels: Clotel, Iola Leary, the Marrow of Tradition (Vintage Classics) by Henry L Gates Publisher Comments William Wells Brown, Frances E.W. Harper, and Charles W. Chesnutt, three black writers who bore witness to the experience of their people under slavery, create a portrait of black life in the 19th century in these three novels.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Race-Ing Justice, En-Gendering Power: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas & Constru by Toni Morrison Publisher Comments It was perhaps the most wretchedly aspersive race and gender scandal of recent times: the dramatic testimony of Anita Hill at the Senate hearings on the confirmation of Clarence Thomas as Supreme Court Justice. Yet even as the televised proceedings... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Invisibility Blues: From Pop to Theory by Michele Wallace Publisher Comments 'A new and updated edition of the classic work of black feminism. First published in 1990, Invisibility Blues is widely regarded as a landmark in the history of black feminism. The original edition includes an exploration of the work of her mother, the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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