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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...

Born into a life of constant financial, physical, and moral threat, Meti Birabiro takes refuge in literature and the fantastic. Blue Daughter of the Red Sea is Birabiro's poetic account of the harsh reality of her young life spread across three...

Carl Maxey was, in his own words, "a guy who started from scratch - black scratch." He was sent, at age five, to the scandal-ridden Spokane Children's Home and then kicked out at age eleven with the only other "colored" orphan. Yet...

An award-winning writer and a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature, Ryszard Kapuscinski (1932-2007) was a celebrated Polish journalist and author. Praised for the lengths to which he would go to get a story, Kapuscinski gained an extraordinary...

Civil War officer, Reconstruction "carpetbagger," best-selling novelist, and relentless champion of equal rights, Albion Tourgee battled his entire life for racial justice. Now, in this engaging biography, Mark Elliott offers an insightful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679783282Author Frederick DouglassFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

This volume gathers articles of crucial concern to Black Americans. These issues include education, research funding at historically black colleges and universities, voting rights, unemployment, income support policies, health care reform and racism...

The Remarkable Life of Albert Haskell, Jr.: The King of Crown City is the first comprehensive portrait of the Cortland, New York schoolboy who forged a path of his own that garnered him a reputation in New York State and the Northeast of the nation as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802160706Author George BreitmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

When Ye Pei dreamed of Venice as a girl, she imagined a magical floating city of canals and gondola rides. And she imagined her mother, successful in her new life and eager to embrace the daughter she had never forgotten. But when Ye Pei arrives in...

Offering a unique window into the Old Colony Mennonite community in Saskatchewan, this biography of Herman D.W. Friesen reveals the life of a man who attempted to modernize his community, often in opposition to traditional religious beliefs. The story...

In Being Kurdish in a Hostile World, Ayub Nuri writes of growing up during the Iran-Iraq War, of Saddam Hussein's chemical attack that killed thousands in Nuri's home town of Halabja, of civil war, of living in refugee camps, and of years of starvation...

This collection of reminiscences and personal stories tells us about the daily lives of Cree women over the past century: household chores, snaring rabbits, and picking berries, going to school, marriage, bearing and raising children. Seven Cree women...

Although past research on the African American community has focused primarily on issues of discrimination, segregation, and other forms of deprivation, there has always been some recognition of class diversity within the black population. The New Black...

Roy Wilkins (1901--1981) spent forty-six years of his life serving the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and led the organization for more than twenty years. Under his leadership, the NAACP spearheaded efforts that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795702440Author Thembelani NgenelwaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 150g

Frederick Douglass's fluid, changeable sense of his own life story is reflected in the many conflicting accounts he gave of key events and relationships during his journey from slavery to freedom. Nevertheless, when these differing self-presentations are...

In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering. The Tao of Raven takes up the next and, in some ways, less explored question: once the exile...

After surviving the blitzkrieg of World War II and escaping from two Nazi prison camps, Soviet soldier Azamat Altay was banished as a traitor from his native home land. Chinghiz Aitmatov became a hero of Kyrgyzstan, writing novels about the lives of...

Winch has written the first full-length biography of James Forten, a hero of African American history and one of the most remarkable men in 19th-century America. Born into a free black family in 1766, Forten served in the Revolutionary War as a...

Part slave narrative, part memoir, and part sentimental fiction, Behind the Scenes depicts Elizabeth Keckley's years as a slave and subsequent four years in Abraham Lincoln's White House during the Civil War. As public drama privately experienced,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942483731Author Elizabeth LeaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint New Idea PressPublisher New Idea PressWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934759981Author Jesse O. ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Robert D. Reed PublishersPublisher Robert D. Reed PublishersWeight(grams) 542g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781928257295Author Jonathan JansenFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint BookstormPublisher BookstormWeight(grams) 276g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926455877Author Jennifer Bowering DelisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 164g

Towards the end of a long and astonishingly full life, whose scope and variety most of us can only dream about, Jan Carew began writing his memoirs. Written with Joy Gleason Carew, this book offers unparalleled insight into the life and work of this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781619708259Author Marcus DoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Hendrickson Publishers IncPublisher Hendrickson Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781596293281Author Robert J Crawford, Sr.Format PaperbackPage Count 157Imprint History Press (SC)Publisher History Press (SC)Weight(grams) 349g

Suicide in African AmericansBook InformationISBN 9781560725626Author David LesterFormat HardbackPage Count 239Imprint Nova Science Publishers IncPublisher Nova Science Publishers IncWeight(grams) 470g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788771126242Author Robert C. ThomsenFormat HardbackPage Count 242Imprint Aalborg UniversitetsforlagPublisher Aarhus University PressWeight(grams) 510g

In 1961, fearing the communist rule of Fidel Castro, Guillermo Vicente Vidal's family sent him to America through Operation Peter Pan. He arrived in Colorado and was sent to an orphanage with his brothers, and his family reunited four years later. Fifty...

America's African-Americans will identify their role models with this collection of inspiring and amazing stories that showcases 150 black heroes and heroines. These action-packed biographies and powerful illustrations document and highlight the major...

George I. Sánchez was a reformer, activist, and intellectual, and one of the most influential members of the "Mexican American Generation" (1930–1960). A professor of education at the University of Texas from the beginning of World War II until the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783869651224Author Ernest H. SandersFormat HardbackPage Count 97Imprint Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbHPublisher Lexxion Verlagsgesellschaft mbH

The inspirational story of an American woman who moved mountains to secure medical treatments-and eventually a home-for a young Iraqi girl severely burned in a roadside terror attack. This is a story of the astonishing power of self-sacrificial love.On a...

In the 1950s the notorious House Un-American Activities Committee launched a ruthless smear campaign and outright attack against hundreds of labor leaders, teachers, leftists, Communists, civil servants, filmmakers, civil rights activists, and many...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942483748Author Elizabeth LeaderFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint New Idea PressPublisher New Idea PressWeight(grams) 0g

Ralph Bunche was instrumental - sometimes at great personal risk - in finding peaceful solutions to incendiary conflicts around the world, while at the same time he was never far from the realities of racial prejudice. Bunche rose from modest...

Growing up in Mogadishu, Somalia, Shirin Ramzanali Fazel was immersed in the language and culture of Italy, Somalia's former colonizer. Yet when she moved to Italy as a young mother in the 1970s, she discovered a country where immigrants and Muslims were...

When Allen was a child in the 1940s and 1950s, his village was isolated and depended largely on subsistence hunting and fishing, working in the woods, and seasonal harvesting work for its survival. Passamaquoddy was its first language, and the tribal...