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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228837688Author Ian MCD SimpsonFormat HardbackPage Count 84Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061120794Author Lawrence Otis GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 816Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 1111g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915025128Author Tahir AbbasFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Beacon BooksPublisher Beacon BooksWeight(grams) 390gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915025135Author Tahir AbbasFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Beacon BooksPublisher Beacon BooksWeight(grams) 522g

No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes...

Maggie Wilson was born in the highlands of Papua New Guinea to Melka Amp Jara, a native of the highlands, and Patrick Leahy, brother of Australian explorers Michael and Daniel Leahy. Wilson's life serves as a window into the complex social and cultural...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999691878Author David W MaranvilleFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint David W. MaranvillePublisher David W. MaranvilleWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999512647Author Francisco a RiveraFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Zen Bones PublishingPublisher Zen Bones PublishingWeight(grams) 363g

No serious history of the development of the African American novel from the 1950s onward can be written without reference to John Oliver Killens. A two-time nominee for the Pulitzer Prize and founding chairman of the legendary Harlem Writers Guild,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780990333920Author Harley WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Kirk W. WangensteenPublisher Kirk W. WangensteenWeight(grams) 245g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986435331Author James W SymingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint VellumPublisher VellumWeight(grams) 386g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780981249551Author Frank LingFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Frank Hegyi PublicationsPublisher Frank Hegyi PublicationsWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947482329Author Willard Renalda BeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Willard Renalda BeanPublisher Willard Renalda BeanWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865349490Author Lawrence D SundbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 598Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 866g

On May 1, 1866, a minor exchange between white Memphis city police and a group of black Union soldiers quickly escalated into murder and mayhem. Changes wrought by the Civil War and African American emancipation sent long-standing racial, economic,...

A literary memoir of exile and survival in Soviet prison camps during the Holocaust.Most Polish Jews who survived the Second World War did not go to concentration camps, but were banished by Stalin to the remote prison settlements and Gulags of the...

A National Historic Landmark with a complex and remarkable two-hundred-year history, Melrose Plantation near Natchitoches, Louisiana, was home to many notable women, including freedwoman and entrepreneur Marie ThA (c)rese Coincoin and artist Clementine...

Born in rural Virginia during Reconstruction, Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) was a central figure in black history and an important American scholar. In 1912, he became the first and only individual of slave parentage to earn a Ph.D. in history. In 1915...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998977607Author Stacy NixFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Stacy Nix PublishingPublisher Stacy Nix PublishingWeight(grams) 236g

Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (1936-2013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney. Following passage of the Civil...

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The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country's demographics but also black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays...

This study reveals how Carter G. Woodson (1875-1950) used the black press and modern public-relations techniques to popularize black history during the first half of the twentieth century. Often overlooked is Woodson's skillful use of newspapers in...

In Finding Myself Lost in Louisiana, author Keagan LeJeune brilliantly weaves the unusual folklore, landscape, and history of Louisiana along with his own family lineage that begins in 1760 to trace the trajectory of people’s lives in the Bayou State...

A literary memoir of exile and survival in Soviet prison camps during the Holocaust. Most Polish Jews who survived the Second World War did not go to concentration camps, but were banished by Stalin to the remote prison settlements and Gulags of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999838129Author Rose Marie CowhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Ravenwood Farm Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Ravenwood Farm Publishing, Ltd...

This is the first book-length study of the 12 films starring African American Renaissance man Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Singer, actor, author, lawyer, athlete, pacifist and civil rights activist, Robeson was also the first African American to receive...

Union soldiers facilitate migration to their own hometown. Offering a rare glimpse into the lives of African American men, women, and children on the cusp of freedom, ""First Fruits of Freedom"" chronicles one of the first collective...

In the early morning hours of December 8, 1969, three hundred officers of the newly created elite paramilitary tactical unit known as SWAT initiated a violent battle with a handful of Los Angeles-based members of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense...

For more than sixty years, Bob Steele was the radio voice of Southern New England, entertaining listeners of WTIC AM with his wit, humor, and an inimitable style that kept listeners faithfully tuning in to his morning show. Capturing the nation's highest...

In a state as big as Texas, the various regions differ widely in their histories and identities, which makes the cultivation of regional history essential. This collection of stories recounts the colorful past of the Clear Fork country-the land along the...

In 'They Say,' James West Davidson recounts the first thirty years in the passionate life of Ida B. Wells—as well as the story of the great struggle over the meaning of race in post-emancipation America. Davidson captures the breathtaking and often...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983475231Author Lawrence S HarteFormat PaperbackImprint White Poppy PressPublisher White Poppy PressWeight(grams) 762g

Bodies out of Place asserts that anti-Black racism is not better than it used to be; it is just performed in more-nuanced ways. Barbara Harris Combs argues that racism is dynamic, so new theories are needed to help expose it. The Bodies-out-of-Place...

In Confronting the Color Line, Alan Anderson and George Pickering examine the hopes and strategies, the frustrations and internal conflicts, the hard-won successes and bitter disappointments of the civil rights movement in Chicago. The scene of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692280010Author Meikle PaschalFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Intuitive PressPublisher Intuitive PressWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648670384Author Cathleen HopeFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Initiate Media Pty LtdPublisher Initiate Media Pty LtdWeight(grams) 254g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615303819Author Kenneth LiboFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Obermayer Foundation, Inc.Publisher Obermayer Foundation, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228869061Author Godelive N OheloFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 195g