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The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military The Right to Fight: A History of African Americans in the Military
by Gerald Astor

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From Bunker Hill to Hamburger Hill, the valorous service of African Americans in the armed forces of the United States is even more noble considering the historical hostility of other Americans to their serving at all.... (read more)

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American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
by Edmund S Morgan

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This work, through an analysis of colonial Virginia, examines a major American paradox, namely the marriage of slavery and freedom.... (read more)

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Ghettonation: Dispatches from America's Culture War Ghettonation: Dispatches from America's Culture War
by Cora Daniels

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From the Introduction: ghet-to n. (Merriam-Webster dictionary) Italian, from Venetian dialect ghèto island where Jews were forced to live; literally, foundry (located on the island), from ghetàr, to cast; from Latin jactare to throw 1: a... (read more)

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American Nightmare American Nightmare
by Jerrold M Packard

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For a hundred years after the end of the Civil War, a quarter of all Americans lived under a system of legalized segregation called Jim Crow. Together with its rigidly enforced canon of racial "etiquette," these rules governed nearly every aspect of life-... (read more)

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Salvation: Black People and Love Salvation: Black People and Love
by bell hooks

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Acclaimed visionary and intellectual, bell hooks began her exploration of the meaning of love in American culture with the bestselling All About Love: New Visions. Here she continues her love song to the nation with the groundbreaking and soul-stirring... (read more)

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The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South The Color of Love: A Mother's Choice in the Jim Crow South
by Gene Cheek

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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)

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (Penguin American Library)
by Frederick Douglass

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Written more than a century ago by Frederick Douglass, a former slave who went on to become a famous orator, U.S. minister, and a leader of his people, this masterpiece is one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded. Douglass's shocking... (read more)

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Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation
by John H Franklin

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From John Hope Franklin, America's foremost African American historian, comes this groundbreaking analysis of slave resistance and escape. A sweeping panorama of plantation life before the Civil War, this book reveals that slaves frequently rebelled... (read more)

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Slave Religion the Invisible Institution Slave Religion the Invisible Institution
by Albert J Raboteau

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Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more)

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Our Nig: Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Our Nig: Or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black
by Harriet E Wilson

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The 1859 novel tracing the life of a mulatto foundling abused by a white family in 19th century New England.... (read more)

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The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by James Mcbride

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With a new Introduction to this touching homage to his mother, the author paints a portrait of growing up in a black neighborhood as the child of an interracial marriage. Although raised an Orthodox Jew in the South, McBride's mother abandoned her... (read more)

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Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies) Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Life (Penguin Lives Biographies)
by Marshall Frady

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Marshall Frady, the reporter who became the unofficial chronicler of the civil rights movement, here re- creates the life and turbulent times of its inspirational leader. Deftly interweaving the story of King's quest with a history of the African... (read more)

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Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
by Sarah Louise Delany

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Warm, feisty, and intelligent, the Delany sisters speak their mind in a book that is at once a vital historical record and a moving portrait of two remarkable women who continued to love, laugh, and embrace life after over a hundred years of living side... (read more)

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White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era
by Shelby Steele

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In 1955 the murderers of Emmett Till, a black Mississippi youth, were acquitted of their crime, undoubtedly because they were white. Forty years later, O. J. Simpson, whom many thought would be charged with murder by virtue of the DNA evidence against... (read more)

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Black Odyssey Black Odyssey
by Nathan Huggins

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This classic work of scholarship and empathy tells the story of the self-creation of the African-American people. It assesses the full impact of the Middle Passage -- "the most traumatizing mass human migration in modern history" -- and of... (read more)

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The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches The Autobiography of Medgar Evers: A Hero's Life and Legacy Revealed Through His Writings, Letters, and Speeches
by Myrl Evers Williams

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The story of one the greatest leaders of the Civil Rights movement brings his achievement to life for a new generation. His personal documents, writings, and speeches provide a cohesive narrative detailing the rise and tragic death of a civil rights hero.... (read more)

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Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
by Michael Honey

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The definitive history of the epic struggle for economic justice that became Martin Luther King Jr.'s last crusade. Memphis in 1968 was ruled by a paternalistic "plantation mentality" embodied in its good-old-boy mayor, Henry Loeb. Wretched conditions... (read more)

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Talking at the Gates Talking at the Gates
by James Campbell

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This is a fluid and honest biography about the novelist, playwright, and essayist James Baldwin. Campbell's eagerly awaited new afterword analyzes thousands of pages of newly released FBI documents on Baldwin which came from their surveillance of him.... (read more)

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Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963 Reporting Civil Rights: American Journalism 1941-1963
by Clayborne Carson

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From A. Philip Randolph's defiant call in 1941 for African Americans to march on Washington to Alice Walker in 1973, Reporting Civil Rights presents firsthand accounts of the revolutionary events that overthrew segregation in the United States. This two... (read more)

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Letters to a Young Victim: Hope and Healing in America's Inner Cities Letters to a Young Victim: Hope and Healing in America's Inner Cities
by Armstrong Williams

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In a series of compassionate yet provocative letters to a young African American trying to turn his life around, one of America's leading conservatives argues that individual responsibility, not government involvement, is the key to solving the problems... (read more)

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