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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501147296Author John Edgar WidemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 200g

Since 1619, when Africans first came ashore in the swampy Chesapeake region of Virginia, there have been many individuals whose achievements or strength of character in the face of monumental hardships have called attention to the genius of the African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781414336374Author Carolyn Maull MckinstryFormat PaperbackPage Count 301Imprint Tyndale House PublishersPublisher Tyndale House Publishers

Born into a blue-collar family in the Jim Crow South, Herman J. Russell built a shoeshine business when he was twelve years old-and used the profits to buy a vacant lot where he built a duplex while he was still a teen. Over the next fifty years, he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955496087Author Charles MooreFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Petite Ivy PressPublisher Petite Ivy PressWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798889107798Author Joyce Di LorenzoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798886930825Author John C ColeFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLCWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789948775522Author Taqi M AlbaharnaFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Austin MacauleyPublisher Austin MacauleyWeight(grams) 200g

While blacks have made perhaps their most obvious and substantial contributions to Western popular culture through music and dance, they have developed a rich popular culture in a number of other areas, including the visual arts, mass media, health...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300511Author Tom SandoFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 256g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759557Author John SchreiberFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 398g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783087204Author Paul Longley ArthurFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

T. R. M. Howard: Doctor, Entrepreneur, Civil Rights Pioneer tells the remarkable story of one of the early leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. A renaissance man, T. R. M. Howard (1908-1976) was a respected surgeon, important black community leader, and...

Bernard LaFayette Jr. (b. 1940) was a cofounder of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a leader in the Nashville lunch counter sit-ins, a Freedom Rider, an associate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Southern Christian Leadership...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307453402Author Colin BroderickFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 301g

According to acclaimed writer Isak Dinesen, "the cure for anything is salt water," and most coastal Mainers would likely agree. The distinct sense of place one gets in Maine is instilled at early age and living along Maine's rugged coast requires a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604592030Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 172g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596870130Author John A KernerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Milk and Cookies PressPublisher ibooks IncWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590793657Author Neile Sue FriedmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Select Books IncPublisher Select Books IncWeight(grams) 310g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590793060Author Neile Sue FriedmanFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Select Books IncPublisher Select Books IncWeight(grams) 422g

In this book immigrant minorities from Africa and the Caribbean tell their unique stories. These 'new' Americans recount their travels in the American maze, and thus, allow their voices to be heard. Who really cares for these voices? They do care and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589806962Author Al KennedyFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing CoWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330938Author Alex PoinsettFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 585g

A collection of memorabilia from 2966, photographed with commentary.Book InformationISBN 9781566251822Author Hal LifsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Taylor Trade PublishingPublisher Taylor Trade PublishingWeight(grams) 848g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781455620647Author Kathy Andre-EamesFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Pelican Publishing CoPublisher Pelican Publishing Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780913543658Author Dr. Jawanza KunjufuFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint African American ImagesPublisher African American ImagesWeight(grams) 226g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780905488844Author Harriet W. WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Trent EditionsPublisher Trent Editions

After a grueling and dramatic escape from occupied Poland in 1939, at age eight, Julian and his mother arrive in America in 1941 with big plans. Julian's beautiful, former socialite mother Barbara wants to write a memoir and regain her former social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873485913Author Malcolm XFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Pathfinder Books LtdPublisher Pathfinder Books LtdWeight(grams) 50g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780855757779Author Joan MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies Press

Activist, international statesman, reluctant black leader, scholar, icon, father and husband, Ralph Bunche is one of the most complicated and fascinating figures in the history of twentieth- century America. Bunche played a central role in shaping...

Activist, international statesman, reluctant black leader, scholar, icon, father and husband, Ralph Bunche is one of the most complicated and fascinating figures in the history of twentieth- century America. Bunche played a central role in shaping...

John Edward Bruce, a premier black journalist from the late 1800's until his death in 1924, was a vital force in the popularization of African American history. "Bruce Grit," as he was called, wrote for such publications as Marcus Garvey's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814255810Author Sue EisenfeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

In this compelling new study, Debra Walker King considers fragments of experience recorded in oral histories and newspapers as well as those produced in twentieth-century novels, films, and television that reveal how the black body in pain functions as a...

"With this exquisitely composed [essay collection], Patrice Gopo sets herself apart as one of the most promising and talented writers of faith of our time. All the Colors We Will See is evocative, compelling, surprising, and brave. Gopo has a special...

Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish writers in Canada. His poetry, infused with lyricism and mysticism, along with the numerous essays and articles he penned, embodied both a rich literary...

This comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings, including excerpts from three of his books-An Autobiography: The...

No book more vividly explains the horror of American slavery and the emotional impetus behind the antislavery movement than Frederick Douglass's Narrative. In an introductory essay, Robert B. Stepto reexamines the extraordinary life and achievement of a...

As a young photojournalist just out of college in the early fifties, Flip Schulke moved to Miami and began covering social issues. In 1958, while working as a freelancer for Jet and Ebony, he was assigned to photograph Martin Luther King. Afterwards, the...